WhatsApp announces a feature to sync contact securely and privately across devices. It's all on their blog, and leverages key transparency
Thibault
@thibmeu
Drinking tea. Distributed systems, Cryptography, Research. Currently @cloudflare. Opinions are my own. he/him. 🇪🇺 eating 🥐
Joined May 2013
- And verification fits in a tweet > cargo install plexi > plexi audit --remote-url 'akd-auditor.cloudflare.com' --namespace 'whatsapp.key-transparency.v1' successCloudflare is now verifying WhatsApp’s Key Transparency audit proofs to ensure the security of end-to-end encrypted messaging conversations without having to manually check QR codes. cfl.re/3ZAwuGx #BirthdayWeek
- Cloudflare is now verifying WhatsApp Key Transparency proofs as a way to help ensure public keys integrity. Details are in the blog
- Hidden in today's announcement, @Cloudflare workers now support timelock encryption! You can seal secret locally (cargo install dee), and make your cloud decrypt it later.You're invited to a deep dive into the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application. cfl.re/3v0Nadw #SecurityWeek
- For the hex encoded public key lovers github.com/thibmeu/rfc9500
