martinralbrecht

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I am a professor in the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London. I work on cryptography and computational mathematics.
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WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption has been independently investigated: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/files/324396471/whatsapp.pdf

Full version here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/794.pdf

We didn't review the entire source code, only the cryptographic core. That said, the main issue we found was that the WhatsApp servers ultimately decide who is and isn't in a particular chat. Dan Goodin wrote about it here: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/whatsapp-provides-n...