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>Can this be verified? Can this be verified to be the case 100% of the time? Is there anything stopping the client from lying to a user No. OpenWhisper system
by valarauca1 10y ago
>Can this be verified? Can this be verified to be the case 100% of the time? Is there anything stopping the client from lying to a user
No.
OpenWhisper system otherwise GPLv3 auditable libraries are closed source for usage by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Either OpenWhisper systems has elected not to enforce their copyright (in which case you could make a BSD/MIT/Apache fork of their software), OR they have consented to Facebook allowing them to circumvent the license.
Eitherway. The code in WhatsApp is off limits for anyone not working with Facebook so well never know. Closed source crypto is bad. We only have WhatsApp's word the Facebook libraries have no modifications.