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WhatsApp Key Transparency with Jasleen Malvai and Kevin Lewi

Security Cryptography Whatever

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How to Make WhatsApp Auto Proofs Work at WhatsApp Scale

These auto proofs are meant to actually just reveal nothing about the user's phone numbers and what's being added when they're being added, except for the fact that they're being included in the next epoch. Unlike certificate transparency, they can't actually contain like individual users, phone numbers and their public keys. They're really just meant to be like these like blind values that are just verifying or being added to the tree without knowing what the values actually are. But you can put it on. No, I mean, if you want it, you could even put it into a smart contract trade. Yeah. You have to feed the smart contract. There you go. Okay. So you basically started

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