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Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.

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privacy Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.

cryptography Keeping a computation secret from the machine running it -- obfuscation, permutations, and what has been proved.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Moxie Marlinspike

    Cryptographer who created the Signal Protocol and founded Signal

    The fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.

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