Yeah well, you could just read some of the many docs describing how whatsapp works? Forwarding media works because it’s just a small blob with a url to the enc

Yeah well, you could just read some of the many docs describing how whatsapp works? Forwarding media works because it’s just a small blob with a url to the encrypted file and the decryption key. These things are super well understood, hundreds of independent parties have studied how whatsapp works. see for example: https://github.com/ddz/whatsapp-media-decrypt https://github.com/ddz/whatsapp-media-decrypt