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Monday, 18 October 2021 09:57

WhatsApp to start offering back-ups for encrypted chats

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The Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has added an extra layer of security to the app which offers its two billion users end-to-end encrypted messaging.

In a statement issued on Thursday, WhatsApp said from now on, it would provide a means for people to back up their chats, so that they would have access to them even if they lost their mobile devices.

The company said this would be done by offering an extra, optional layer of security to protect back-ups stored on Google Drive or iCloud with end-to-end encryption.

Normally, WhatsApp messages are stored on device itself. But soon, users would be able to secure their end-to-end encrypted back-ups with either a password of their choice or else a 64-bit encryption key known only to the user.
"Neither WhatsApp nor your back-up service provider will be able to read your back-ups or access the key required to unlock it," the company said.

The feature is to be rolled out to those who are using the latest version of WhatsApp.

The way to use the end-to-end encrypted back-ups is outlined here for iOS and Android users. For the nerds, there is information here on how the feature was built.

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Sam Varghese

Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the site came into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote mostly about free and open source software, based on his own use of this genre of software. Since May 2016, he has been writing across many areas of technology. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years in India (Indian Express and Deccan Herald), the UAE (Khaleej Times) and Australia (Daily Commercial News (now defunct) and The Age). His personal blog is titled Irregular Expression.

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