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WhatsApp uses the open Signal Protocol.
by john61 10mo ago
WhatsApp uses the open Signal Protocol.
- pipo234 10mo agoPedantic: I think you meant to say open whisper protocol, the end to end protocol which is Whatsapp copied from Signal.
- palata 10mo agoThe name of the protocol is "Signal".
- sedatk 10mo agoThat's a bit misleading. WhatsApp uses Signal's end-to-end encryption scheme, but not Signal's networking protocol. It's still proprietary. Otherwise, we could have cross-messaging between Signal and Whatsapp.
- john61 10mo agoWhatsApp just implemented cross messaging using the open Signal Protocol forced by the EU. We will see if the Signal messenger enables interop with WhatsApp, they are not forced to do this.