Re:There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
by shawnz on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:57PM
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> This allows WhatsApp to MITM.
If you're operating under the assumption that users aren't going to check their peers' key fingerprints, then you could just give compromised keys from the beginning -- no rekeying necessary. There's no way to protect against that scenario. That's not a fault of WhatsApp.
If you're operating under the assumption that users aren't going to check their peers' key fingerprints, then you could just give compromised keys from the beginning -- no rekeying necessary. There's no way to protect against that scenario. That's not a fault of WhatsApp.