World News Headlines September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 WhatsApp will have end-to-end encrypted backups, Zuckerberg says 0 0000 0 0 more WhatsApp will have end-to-end encrypted backups, Zuckerberg says September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found September 11, 2021 Under One Ceiling WhatsApp will have end-to-end encrypted backups, Zuckerberg says WhatsApp users on iOS and Android will soon be able to secure their backups to iCloud and Google Drive with end-to-end encryption, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Friday. “WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post, “and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems.” That work became public when WABetaInfo reported that the service had started testing end-to-end encrypted backups on Android in July. Now it’s official: WhatsApp users can soon save their chat history to cloud services with fewer worries about privacy. Assuming, of course, that WhatsApp’s implementation of these encrypted backups is free of flaws. Facebook published a post to its engineering-focused blog discussing WhatsApp’s implementation of end-to-end encrypted backups. That post revealed that WhatsApp users will have two options for encrypting their chat history—a randomly generated 64-digit key or a password saved to a Backup Key Vault. Backup Key Vaults store passwords in a Hardware Security Module (HSM). Facebook said the vault “will be responsible for enforcing password verification attempts and rendering the key permanently inaccessible after a limited number of unsuccessful attempts to access it,” and that “WhatsApp will know only that a key exists in the HSM. It will not know the key itself.” The company said “the HSM-based Backup Key Vault service will be geographically distributed across multiple data centers to keep it up and running in case of a data center outage,” too, which is vital for a global service with 2 billion users. More information about how Facebook and WhatsApp have set up end-to-end encrypted backups is available in a new whitepaper. Facebook said that end-to-end encrypted backups will be available to WhatsApp users on iOS and Android “in the coming weeks.” Related Related posts: How risky is dining out during the COVID-19 pandemic? Coronavirus ‘storm’ as South Africa cases surge: Live updates Lenovo IdeaPads on sale, plus more cheap laptop deals this weekend tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous 14 best tweets of the week, including frong, floor poisoning, and wings dinner next Families expect US release of FBI report on Saudi role in 9/11
