WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption and enabled it by default in the latest version of its Android messaging application, partner Open Whisper Systems announced Tuesday. The new feature taps Open Whisper’s open source TextSecure encryption protocol to ensure that only a conversation’s participants can read the messages they exchange. WhatsApp itself won’t be able to decrypt the messages, in other words, even if law enforcement should try to require it.
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WhatsApp Battens Down the Hatches
Posted by: Katherine Noyes November 19, 2014 02:04 PMWhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption and enabled it by default in the latest version of its Android messaging application, partner Open Whisper Systems announced Tuesday. The new feature taps Open Whisper’s open source TextSecure encryption protocol to ensure that only a conversation’s participants can read the messages they exchange. WhatsApp itself won’t be able to decrypt the messages, in other words, even if law enforcement should try to require it.