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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (www.wired.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Got it from here : https://infosec.exchange/@mattburgess/111885761552024420

NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.

— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards

— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

WhatsApp, Google Messenger, Facebook Messenger and Skype all implement the same Signal protocol.

The article's title is misleading, and did not explain how it would work at all.

Like, will the protocol also add logins for different services? I remember having a messenger app a while ago (Trillian), which would merge MSN, ICQ and other chat platforms into a single experience.

I can sorta get how DMs will work. Group chats may be much harder to implement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had all but forgotten about Trillian! Man, that was huge in my circles back in my youth. Such nostalgia reading that name again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Miranda IM over Trillian any day of the week!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also to add a very important question: will Facebook then be able to harvest all of our Signal metadata like they do for WhatsApp?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Hopefully the opposite is true. There'e end-to-end encryption and if the client isn't written by meta, then meta can't intercept after decryption.

Being able to use meta's chat platform without any of their code being executable on your device is a big improvement. They can't scrape your contacts and data at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Trillian? A while ago? Maaaan, that's almost two decades ago... Nostalgia just hit me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I recommend seeing talks from Matrix protocol that explain potencial and doable solutions.