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If WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, how can they share the messages?
by nicky0 7y ago
If WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, how can they share the messages?
- Gaelan 7y agoThe government could compel them to change their software.
- blocked_again 7y agoEnd to end encryption does not exist.
- kd3 7y agoPlease elaborate?
- dboreham 7y agoThe ends aren't secure.
- packet_nerd 7y agoNot the parent, but true in a sense. Communication is the act of conveying information from one person's consciousness to another. In the usual encrypted chat scenario, that path is unencrypted at two points (plaintext input, and plaintext output at the far end). It is entirely possible though to have a true end-to-end encrypted channel if both parties are able to do the encryption in their heads without the plain text message ever being visible. A trivial practical example would be a single bit message with a single bit one time pad (agree ahead of time that if I say yes on the phone, it means no and vice versa).
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- i_am_proteus 7y agoFacebook controls both endpoints.
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- daveFNbuck 7y agoWhatsApp controls both ends. Also, the article is unclear about whether the messages have to be decrypted before being shared, so they may just have to share the encrypted message.