The “encryption for two different receiving sides” part is the one that you, in turn, might have missed. WhatsApp client might just send messages to some additional technical party, which is not your buddy.
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JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 12 hours agoI’m not sure if it’s the encryption part you don’t understand, the end to end, or both.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
I understand perfectly well, it’s you who doesn’t.
If the access happens on the client which is the endpoint of the e2e-encryption then it doesn’t say anything about the e2e-encryption working or not working. On the endpoint the content is always available decrypted, for user consumption
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
an end to end encryption implementation is broken when secret keys leak, whether its intentional or not.