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I get a lot of credit for the stuff that Open Whisper Systems does, but it's not all me by a long shot. Trevor Perrin, Frederic Jacobs, Christine Corbett, Tyler Reinhard, Lilia Kai, Jake McGinty, and Rhodey Orbits are the crew that really made all this work happen.
Not that I really want to steal any of Moxie's thunder, but if you're reading this comment thread you might also be interested in SC4: https://github.com/Spark-Innovations/SC4 Strong encryption that runs in a browser. Recently completed its first security audit.
I've been looking for something to replace PGP-JS for a while. Cheers.
I get a lot of credit for the stuff that Open Whisper Systems does, but it's not all me by a long shot. Trevor Perrin, Frederic Jacobs, Christine Corbett, Tyler Reinhard, Lilia Kai, Jake McGinty, and Rhodey Orbits are the crew that really made all this work happen.
I get a lot of credit for the stuff that Open Whisper Systems does, but it's not all me by a long shot. Trevor Perrin, Frederic Jacobs, Christine Corbett, Tyler Reinhard, Lilia Kai, Jake McGinty, and Rhodey Orbits are the crew that really made all this work happen.
Sadly, the march to "Safety Fascism" continues unabated.
>Unfortunately, if Mr. Marlinspike’s encryption scheme can be applied to imagery, then childporn collectors thank him too. And there we go, highest voted comment on the article: a strawman about child pornography. Think of the keeeds
There is not any evidence of encryption on WhatsApp, source code is closed so you can never be safe.
People have sniffed the wire for the WhatApp client (on Android, towards another Android) and seen that it is encrypted. But your point stands - there's no UI to indicate if it was secure or not and the code isn't open so you can't know for sure.
There is not any evidence of encryption on WhatsApp, source code is closed so you can never be safe.
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Given that we have the man himself onboard - can I urge you to ask the WSJ to remove the comment at the start of the article about WhatsApp implementing your encryption schema? Unless I've missed something, there's absolutely no way for an end-user to determine if their messages are being encrypted (with whatsapp). Or how they're being encrypted for that matter. I feel like WhatsApp latched onto your groundwork (pote…
even if an Android application would communicate with others 100% securely, Google has wireless administrator privileges and can be served secret letters that can order Google to do anything, so technically they could log the data before it's encrypted.
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Given that we have the man himself onboard - can I urge you to ask the WSJ to remove the comment at the start of the article about WhatsApp implementing your encryption schema? Unless I've missed something, there's absolutely no way for an end-user to determine if their messages are being encrypted (with whatsapp). Or how they're being encrypted for that matter. I feel like WhatsApp latched onto your groundwork (pote…
"Absolutely no way"? I'm sorry to be impolite about it, but that's a bit of an exaggeration: one could jailbreak their phone, pull the binary into their computer, decompile it, and inspect it for implementation structures that would be coherent with how the two or three most popular encryption algorithms are commonly implemented. The expertise to be able to accomplish it doesn't come cheap, but it's certainly in the…
Whereas with Textsecure. Well it just works...