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Last week, there was talk about a supposed vulnerability in WhatsApp, one that could potentially compromise messages sent through the platform. Tobias Boelter, a cryptography and security researcher at the University of California, Berkeley discovered the “backdoor”. He found that Facebook and WhatsApp could potentially intercept and read encrypted messages sent within the app. The vulnerability could compromise information sent through the network, despite the fact that WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption. The cryptographer recently gave an interview to The Guardian explaining the issue. Every user has a secret and a public key, the latter is used for encrypting messages that can be made readable again with the associated secret key. WhatsApp stores the recipient’s public key on its central server, while allowing the app to download public keys of contacts automatical... ...