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2. Reception and criticism of WhatsApp security and privacy ...

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   In May 2012 security researchers noticed that new updates of WhatsApp sent messages with encryption, [40] [41] [42] but described the cryptographic method used as "broken." [43] [44] In August of the same year, the WhatsApp support staff stated that messages sent in the "latest version" of the WhatsApp software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian) were encrypted ...

3. Off-the-record messaging - Wikipedia

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   In addition to providing encryption and authentication — features also provided by typical public-key cryptography suites, such as PGP, GnuPG, and X.509 — OTR also offers some less common features: Forward secrecy Messages are only encrypted with temporary per-message AES keys, negotiated using the Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol.

4. WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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   WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an American instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [13] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, [14] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

5. Timeline of WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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   The WhatsApp support staff announce that messages were encrypted in the "latest version" of the WhatsApp software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian), without specifying the cryptographic method. [8] 2013: February: Userbase: WhatsApp's user base swells to about 200 million active users and its staff to 50. [2 ...

6. Signal Protocol - Wikipedia

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   On April 5, 2016, WhatsApp and Open Whisper Systems announced that they had finished adding end-to-end encryption to "every form of communication" on WhatsApp, and that users could now verify each other's keys. [27] [28] In February 2017, WhatsApp announced a new feature, WhatsApp Status, which uses the Signal Protocol to secure its contents. [29]

7. End-to-end encryption - Wikipedia

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   End-to-end encryption ensures that data is transferred securely between endpoints. But, rather than try to break the encryption, an eavesdropper may impersonate a message recipient (during key exchange or by substituting their public key for the recipient's), so that messages are encrypted with a key known to the attacker. After decrypting the ...

8. Signal (software) - Wikipedia

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   Signal's app icon may be changed with a variety of colour themes for customization and to hide the app. The application name can also be customized. [130] Messages can have effects like spoilers and italics, and users can add each other via QR code. [131] Signal excludes users' messages from non-encrypted cloud backups by default. [132]

9. Open Whisper Systems - Wikipedia

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   Open Whisper Systems (abbreviated OWS [7]) was a software development group [8] that was founded by Moxie Marlinspike in 2013. The group picked up the open source development of TextSecure and RedPhone, and was later responsible for starting the development of the Signal Protocol [9] and the Signal messaging app.