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Whatsapp and signal use the same encryption and the same messaging protocol. Piece of advice: As far as tech is concerned, HN isn’t a place where you can get a
by scrollaway 4y ago
Whatsapp and signal use the same encryption and the same messaging protocol.
Piece of advice: As far as tech is concerned, HN isn’t a place where you can get away with talking about things you don’t understand. You’ll far too often run up against people who have more expertise in what you write about than you have expertise brushing your teeth.
- hot_gril 4y agoI know what I'm talking about, and I'm detecting some arrogance. Also, it doesn't matter here, but where are you getting that WhatsApp and Signal use the same messaging protocol? Might be missing something, but I don't see that they both use XMPP, if that's what you mean.
- pwpw 4y agoWhat's app literally uses the signal protocol[0] for the exchanging of messages. [0] https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/ https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
- zaik 4y agoThe Signal protocol is an encryption protocol and not a message exchange protocol. I think WhatsApp is built on ejabberd for message exchange and possibly could be able to federate using XMPP.