{"id":114471,"date":"2014-11-19T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T08:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114471"},"modified":"2014-11-19T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T08:57:28","slug":"whatsapp-full-end-to-end-encryption-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/114471-whatsapp-full-end-to-end-encryption-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp full end-to-end encryption announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp will be getting end-to-end encryption from Open Whisper Systems, the mobile security software developed <a href=\"https:\/\/whispersystems.org\/blog\/whatsapp\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on its blog on Tuesday, 18 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Security-conscious Android users may recognise Open Whisper Systems as the developer of tools such as TextSecure, RedPhone, and Flock.<\/p>\n<p>Open Whisper Systems said that it has been working with WhatsApp for the past six months, and the most recent WhatsApp Android client release already includes support for the TextSecure encryption protocol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBillions of encrypted messages are being exchanged daily,\u201d the company said. \u201cThe WhatsApp Android client does not yet support encrypted messaging for group chat or media messages, but we\u2019ll be rolling out support for those next, in addition to support for more client platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will also be surfacing options for key verification in clients as the protocol integrations are completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatsApp runs on an incredible number of mobile platforms, so full deployment will be an incremental process as we add TextSecure protocol support into each WhatsApp client platform,\u201d Open Whisper Systems said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a ways to go until all mobile platforms are fully supported, but we are moving quickly towards a world where all WhatsApp users will get end-to-end encryption by default,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The security software developer went on to assure that the roadmap for its own products remains unchanged and that they are continuing to develop the TextSecure app.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More WhatsApp news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/114385-whatsapps-two-blue-ticks-disabling-read-receipts.html\"><strong>WhatsApp\u2019s two blue ticks: disabling read receipts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/113951-you-must-pay-for-premium-whatsapp-skype-services-mtn.html\"><strong>You must pay for premium WhatsApp, Skype services: MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/111038-cell-c-free-whatsapp-what-about-voice-data.html\"><strong>Cell C free WhatsApp: what about voice data?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/107608-im-battle-in-sa-whatsapp-vs-bbm-vs-skype.html\"><strong>IM battle in SA: WhatsApp vs BBM vs Skype<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of TextSecure will be rolling out full end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":114473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17934],"tags":[35,27721,27723,2594],"class_list":["post-114471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-smartphones","tag-headline","tag-open-whisper-systems","tag-textsecure","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}