WhatsApp has more than a billion users and allows them to send free mobile phone messages, including group messages, over an internet connection. The move was seen as a victory for privacy, as the company would be unable to hand over details… Despite end-to-end encryption, a back door has been built in to WhatsApp allowing some messages to be unscrambled JONATHAN BRADY/PA WIREWhatsApp messages are not securely encrypted despite the company's claims and they could be read by Facebook or government agencies, researchers have said. The company was bought by Facebook for $22 billion two years ago and introduced end-to-end encryption last April to keep messages secure from everyone but the sender and recipient. Tobias Boelter, a cryptography researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, reported the "back door" to WhatsApp's owner Facebook last year, but was told that the encryption flaw was "expected behaviour".
Meanwhile, Gizmodo has reported that this is not the case — how WhatsApp handles encryption is a feature and works as intended. Left: How WhatsApp displays a change in keys; Right two: How Signal handles itSo the question becomes: Why doesn't WhatsApp handle this like Signal? Gizmodo claims that this "vulnerability" is a very well-known way to spoof and circumvent encryption and messaging systems that rely upon it. It postulates that, due to how encryption keys are handled when a device goes offline and messages are not sent (for whatever reason), WhatsApp or its parent company Facebook can intercept user communications. In the situation described above, WhatsApp will re-encrypt unsent messages with the new keys and send the message without any authorization from the user.
GETTY UPDATE: WhatsApp is testing its latest version on AndroidThere's some good news and bad news for fans of WhatsApp. The world's most popular messaging app is currently testing some tasty new features which could be launching officially in the next few weeks. WHATSAPP is currently testing its next big launch which brings these new features to Android smartphones. APPLE NEW: Apple brought GIF support to its messaging app last year Last year WhatsApp revealed its new camera modes which went live on Android weeks before the iPhone.
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Meanwhile, Gizmodo has reported that this is not the case — how WhatsApp handles encryption is a feature and works as intended. Left: How WhatsApp displays a change in keys; Right two: How Signal handles itSo the question becomes: Why doesn't WhatsApp handle this like Signal? Gizmodo claims that this "vulnerability" is a very well-known way to spoof and circumvent encryption and messaging systems that rely upon it. It postulates that, due to how encryption keys are handled when a device goes offline and messages are not sent (for whatever reason), WhatsApp or its parent company Facebook can intercept user communications. In the situation described above, WhatsApp will re-encrypt unsent messages with the new keys and send the message without any authorization from the user.
GETTY UPDATE: WhatsApp is testing its latest version on AndroidThere's some good news and bad news for fans of WhatsApp. The world's most popular messaging app is currently testing some tasty new features which could be launching officially in the next few weeks. WHATSAPP is currently testing its next big launch which brings these new features to Android smartphones. APPLE NEW: Apple brought GIF support to its messaging app last year Last year WhatsApp revealed its new camera modes which went live on Android weeks before the iPhone.
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