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Re:Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of Wha... by espeed on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:14PM (#19668502)
WhatsApp is Signal under the hood. And as I recall, Moxie helped them set it up.
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Re:Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of Wha... by SEJeff on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:19PM (#19668538)
Not exactly. WhatsApp uses Signal's communication protocol, but has some flaws in the way they implemented it, by design.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/whatsapp-signal-group-chat-vulner...

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Re:Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of Wha... by tptacek on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:17PM (#19668527)
WhatsApp is Signal Protocol under the hood. That does not make the two equivalent from a security perspective; Signal goes through a lot of extra trouble to protect metadata (note, for instance, how it didn't even really have user profiles until relatively recently).
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