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Re:WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having a... by voxic11 on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:48AM (#25685825)
Probably not because that doesn't say whatsapp will have the private keys, just that the vender will. In fact the next sentence you left out of the quote is

> However, these private keys will still not be stored on the WhatsApp chat server.

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Re:WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having a... by GrayShade on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:56AM (#25685915)
That's in a different place (p. 11), but the gist is still the same. Even my quote includes "The WhatsApp server has no access to the client’s private keys".

I guess it wasn't clear, but I was trying to refute the claim implied by the Twitter post (by showing that the document still claims that WhatsApp servers don't have access to the private keys).

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