I guess you can make a case that Signal is just as centralized as many other messaging services too, despite it’s many notable security features. And iirc, WhatsApp is basically a fork of Signal minus some features and tighter integration with Facebook.
No, WhatsApp implements the Signal protocol, but that’s it. Their entire codebase is proprietary (and their implementation of the Signal protocol is too).
I guess you can make a case that Signal is just as centralized as many other messaging services too, despite it’s many notable security features. And iirc, WhatsApp is basically a fork of Signal minus some features and tighter integration with Facebook.
No, WhatsApp implements the Signal protocol, but that’s it. Their entire codebase is proprietary (and their implementation of the Signal protocol is too).
Whatsapp is no signal fork at all
They just implemented the same cryptographic algorithm, the app isn’t open source or trustable
You’re right. Was reading into it’s history…
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It is a non-standard XMPP with a later added encryption scheme outcontracted to Moxie and likely similar to what Signal uses / OMEMO is.