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Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Fisch@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it's not open source, you can't be sure that the encryption keys aren't sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able to access WhatsApp chats without reading them from the phone itself?

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[–] stifle867@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38551-3_11

Dated August 2023.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm leaving the original comment for transparency, but after further examination, I don't endorse it anymore.

~~I'll trust an analysis coming from a reputable, politically agnostic source. Springer is anything but.~~

I guess now I have to read the abstract (Here is the PDF link for the original research paper in original format).

And while in here, on the topic of sources, for anyone reading this thread, doing the same mistake as me, here are the authors affiliations:

Gareth T. Davies, Kai Gellert, Tobias Handirk, Máté Horváth & Tibor Jager:

Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

Sebastian Faller & Julia Hesse:

IBM Research Europe – Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

Sebastian Faller:

ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

[–] InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its a book of proceedings of a scientific conference, usually peer-reviewed. Springer publishes the proceedings but has nothing to do with the selection of the papers or their scientific quality... its just a service they provide, for a fee.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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