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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (www.wired.com)

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NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.

— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards

— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable

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[-] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

I hope Threema is gonna be able to interoperate with WhatsApp as I’d love to ditch that app.

Just a setting preventing new people from your contacts to write to you on WhatsApp would be great. I only keep it because of some groups I can’t leave..

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I've updated the post here to include the original posting and preview I got it from, which shows :

Swiss app Threema says it won’t become interoperable

[-] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Oh shit that’s bad news.

I guess the technical side was complicated..

[-] Flipper@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago

It's not the technical side. They are scared of metadata leaking and making their network less secure. If you want a dezentrale messaging to work take a look at matrix.

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