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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by alias240 on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:58PM (#11617811)
Unless they are covertly decrypting them on the fly using a master key.
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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by Lxr on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @01:28AM (#11618152)
Shouldn't that be impossible by definition?
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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by tremon on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:50AM (#11620591)
I think it would be possible to include additional data in the E2E handshake that would allow a third party to extract the session key.
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