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> They always cared about E2E. It was added really early to Whatsapp due to the mobile first client. Define "always". The very early releases of WhatsApp used
by chimeracoder 4y ago
> They always cared about E2E. It was added really early to Whatsapp due to the mobile first client.
Define "always". The very early releases of WhatsApp used plaintext. Encryption was added in 2013, and E2E (using the Signal protocol) was added in 2016.
- saurik 4y agoWhatsApp wasn't originally a product from Facebook. They bought it in 2014 and the article I found about them fully launching end-to-end encryption in 2016 says that it was in rollout for the prior year on various platforms, which would imply they had already been working on it before that; I've always understood it to be a thing that Facebook took seriously pretty quickly after getting WhatsApp. https://threatpost.com/whatsapp-adds-end-to-end-encryption-to-one-billion-users/117213/ https://threatpost.com/whatsapp-adds-end-to-end-encryption-t... > “Over the past year, we’ve been progressively rolling out Signal Protocol support for all WhatsApp communication across all WhatsApp clients. This includes chats, group chats, attachments, voice notes, and voice calls across Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, Nokia S40, Nokia S60, Blackberry, and BB10,” wrote Open Whisper Systems founder, Moxie Marlinspike.