Reply to post: Re: Aren't you muddling point to point encryption?

Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

Charles 9

Re: Aren't you muddling point to point encryption?

If you're using something like WhatsApp, Signal, or Telegram, then it's encrypted at your computer and decrypted at the employee's computer, with keys known ONLY to the two of you. That is the essence of end-to-end encryption, which unlike point-to-point minimizes the odds of a MITM attack.

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