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aw3c2 on July 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

Encryption on the transport != end-to-end encryption if you consider the users as the ends. The encryption might very well just be from your device to WhatsApp.

glogla on July 10, 2015 [–]

Or it might be like with skype - where according to some report (I don't have link right now, sadly) the encryption is used mostly for obfuscating the protocol and to make building alternative clients harder, but it is give so small entropy pool that it's useless for security.

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