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		alias240 on May 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Natio... Unless they are covertly decrypting them on the fly using a master key.

Lxr on May 3, 2016 [–]

Shouldn't that be impossible by definition?

tremon on May 3, 2016 | [–]

I think it would be possible to include additional data in the E2E handshake that would allow a third party to extract the session key.

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