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Facebook starts testing end-to-end encryption in Messenger

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Facebook started testing end-to-end encryption on their messenger messaging app.As most of the other messaging apps were already rolling out this feature,now Facebook messenger won't be back in this list.Facebook is calling it Secret Conversation,which will be one-to-one conversation.

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dotmatrix ·
Here is a more complete description of Facebook's end-to-end:

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https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/secret_conversations_whitepaper-1.pdf

The documentation indicates the private keys are generated on each mobile device... So, if your device is compromised, your key is compromised.

It would be nice if end-to-end allowed external private keys via NFC smart cards.

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