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borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agoDid you run gpg yourself to generate the key pair, then exchange pub keys with your chat partner? Or did Facebook generate the keys for you from within a closed source application?
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 6 days ago
if it has a backdoor it’s literally not end-to-end encryption at least, and they say it is so… idk
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
You’re misunderstanding what end-to-end encryption is. If they have a copy of your private key, it’s still end to end encrypted. The alternative would be akin to an SSL termination proxy, where your device would encrypt a message using Facebooks public key, they decrypt message, store it, and then Facebook uses your chat partners public key to encrypt and send to them. You cannot send an encrypted message straight through to your chat partner. What I’m insinuating is that there’s no way to know if Facebook has a copy of your private key. The message is still end-to-end encrypted, it is encrypted by you using your chat partners public key, and passes through all of Facebooks infrastructure encrypted, until your chat partner receives and decrypts it. If Facebook stores the message, it’s stored encrypted. They can just decrypt it when subpoenaed or whenever they want bc they have the required private key.
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Ooo mb you’re right yeah, also when you use backups I read, well fack what now?