WhatsApp at present employs end-to-end encryption for its chats, and now in accordance with a publish by Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it appears like end-to-end encryption might be coming to WhatsApp’s backups subsequent. This will apply to each iOS and Android, which signifies that WhatsApp backups saved in iCloud or Google Drive might be end-to-end encrypted.

According to Zuckerberg, “We’re adding another layer of privacy and security to WhatsApp: an end-to-end encryption option for the backups people choose to store in Google Drive or iCloud. WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups, and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems.”

For these unfamiliar with what this implies, end-to-end encryption signifies that solely the meant units will have the ability to decrypt the contents of the chat and backup. This signifies that even within the occasion it’s intercepted within the center, the attacker wouldn’t have the ability to decrypt its contents. Prior to this, the dearth of end-to-end encryption for its backups might be thought-about to be certainly one of WhatsApp’s weaknesses.

That being mentioned, just lately it was found that Facebook employs contractors who’ve particular instruments that may apparently break the encryption of chats, so that you’ll must take the corporate’s newest announcement at face worth for now.

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