A critical flaw (possibly a deliberate backdoor) allows for decryption of Whatsapp messages -- UPDATED

nimelennar January 17, 2017, 5:28pm 39

They’ve updated rot13 to 1024 bit?

I’ll have to update my software; it only uses 512-bit rot13.

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