How does WhatsApp end-to-end encryption work
WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption ensures that only you and the person you're communicating with can see what's sent.
- Jan 8, 2019,
- Updated Jan 8, 2019 4:42 PM IST
The term 'end-to-end encryption' (E2EE) has entered the common lexical use and is no more restricted to the geeks, thanks to WhatsApp which popularised it and brought it to over a billion users globally. It has become the part of our daily digital life as it is the definitive security mechanism that protects our personal data (messages etc.) such that it can only be read on by the sender, and by the recipient on the other end. No one else, including the hackers or the government, can snoop and read the encrypted data.
The term 'end-to-end encryption' (E2EE) has entered the common lexical use and is no more restricted to the geeks, thanks to WhatsApp which popularised it and brought it to over a billion users globally. It has become the part of our daily digital life as it is the definitive security mechanism that protects our personal data (messages etc.) such that it can only be read on by the sender, and by the recipient on the other end. No one else, including the hackers or the government, can snoop and read the encrypted data.