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WhatsApp Key Transparency with Jasleen Malvai and Kevin Lewi

Security Cryptography Whatever

CHAPTER

How to Authenticate a New Key to WhatsApp

Do you do anything when someone uploads a new key to WhatsApp? It's not just a random phone and a random phone number uploading a new key. If it's the same device, that's easy to do. But also people lose their devices. Like we purposely lost the key of the post, like accidentally losing the key.

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