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Privacy@europe.pubEnglish · 10 days ago

An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers

blog.cryptographyengineering.com

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An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers

blog.cryptographyengineering.com

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Privacy@europe.pubEnglish · 10 days ago

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A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging

blog.cryptographyengineering.com

Update 6/10: Based on a short conversation with an engineering lead at X, some of the devices used at X are claimed to be using HSMs. See more further below. Matthew Garrett has a nice post about T…

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/31946686

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RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip
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Color me shocked.
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  “end to end” encrypted
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    No different than any other E2E where you don’t hold the key - for that to work, the service has to have the keys.
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      It isn’t E2EE if the server holds the keys