Correction: Apparently I remembered wrongly and the issue with e2ee in WA is more complex. Apparently it is not directly about a simple third party key on the s

Correction: Apparently I remembered wrongly and the issue with e2ee in WA is more complex. Apparently it is not directly about a simple third party key on the side of WA, but instead about key changes and automatic re-transmission of messages encrypted with replaced keys: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/info-notes/about-the-alleged-whatsapp-backdoor https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/info-notes/about-th... I am sorry for any factually wrong implications my comment had. In effect however, if WA triggers a key change, WA might be able to create a third party key that matches the exchanged keys. This might be what other voices relate to: https://then24.com/2021/06/18/moxie-marlinspike-the-hacker-who-challenges-whatsapp/ https://then24.com/2021/06/18/moxie-marlinspike-the-hacker-w...: > “All messages on WhatsApp are encrypted, but Facebook can, voluntarily or at the request of a government, turn it off for certain users or certain areas. And we cannot know when it does, ”explains Jan Penfrat, political advisor to the activists network. As to the trustworthiness of those sources, I do not have information.