iPhone and Android RCS messages get end-to-end encryption
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Apple and Google have finally end-to-end encrypted RCS messages between their platforms — 18 months after the FBI warned those texts are not secure. But there’s a worrying angle to the coverage that followed the upgrade. Despite what you might have read, your texts are not secure “by default.”
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In Messages on iPhone, you can now use SMS, RCS, end-to-end encrypted RCS, and iMessage. Sure, sending media to Android is better, but everything else is more confusing and frustrating than ever.
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Apple has rolled out an update to iMessage encryption, the likes of which includes post-quantum protections that the company calls the “most significant cryptographic security upgrade” in the messenger’s history. In a blog post published Wednesday ...
Apple is creating a new form of encryption for iMessage. This new layer of encryption aims to prevent harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Today’s encryption is good enough to defend against most encryption cracking attempts. But will today’s encryption ...
Messaging app Viber rolled out its own end-to-end encryption update yesterday, following in the footsteps of its competitor, WhatsApp, and allowing users to keep their calls and messages private. But researchers are questioning whether Viber’s messages ...
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