In 2019 Apple quietly upgraded the protocol to get rid of some obsolete cryptography, but it still wasn’t as advanced as the Signal Protocol used by WhatsApp and Signal.
A big part of the reason: iMessage lacked post-compromise security.
Matthew Green /
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2024-02-21 16:55:20
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