Comment on [Facebook] Messenger is finally getting end-to-end encryption by default - The Verge
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year agoTrue end to end is where you and your partner have keys and you both encrypt on the client side, and don’t tell the middle man. That way no malicious intent from the server could ever decrypt the actual message.
That’s how the Signal protocol they’re using is working
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 year ago
WhatsApp is not peer to peer.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Nobody said it was?
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What is it you thought they were saying?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You seem confused. E2EE doesn’t mean peer-to-peer. Signal protocol isn’t peer-to-peer. You don’t need to be peer-to-peer to have secure communication because E2EE makes it so that the server can’t read what the two ends are writing.