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How WhatsApp Manages Our Chat Backups

How WhatsApp encrypts chat backups, and where it can still fail

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Chady
Oct 12, 2024
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In this post, I want to explain how WhatsApp protects your chat backups. The chats themselves are end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), so only the people in the chat can read the messages. Not even WhatsApp can read them. The backup in Google Drive or iCloud used to be a different story.

For this post I used two sources. The first is WhatsApp’s whitepaper, Secur…

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