Re:WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups [pdf]
by Thorrez on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:39AM
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>Well if Facebook is encrypting I'm hoping Apple/Google can't decrypt on their datacenters.
I was referring to the prior backup scheme where Facebook wasn't encrypting. It could accurately be described as encrypted at rest I think, but yet Google and Apple could read the contents I think.
>no ends and it is just a loop.
The terminology is getting pretty confusing at this point. I usually think of the ends as the intended parties to look at the data. If there are no ends, then no one will look at the data, meaning the data is useless. Actually if there's no beginning end, there's no one to create the data, so thus the data doesn't even exist.
I was referring to the prior backup scheme where Facebook wasn't encrypting. It could accurately be described as encrypted at rest I think, but yet Google and Apple could read the contents I think.
>no ends and it is just a loop.
The terminology is getting pretty confusing at this point. I usually think of the ends as the intended parties to look at the data. If there are no ends, then no one will look at the data, meaning the data is useless. Actually if there's no beginning end, there's no one to create the data, so thus the data doesn't even exist.