Wednesday, April 6, 2016

WhatsApp Completes End-To-End Encryption Roll Out

Messaging giant WhatsApp has now fully implemented strong end-to-end encryption on its platform and across all mobile platforms for which it offers apps (Read here).

This means users of the latest versions of the messaging app will have their comms and media end-to-end encrypted by default.

End-to-end encryption means the content of communications are not stored in plaintext on WhatsApp’s servers. Nor is the company able to decrypt users’ messages to access them since it does not hold the encryption keys. So WhatsApp will be unable to be compelled to hand over messaging data — even if served with a warrant by authorities demanding access.

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