Encrypting Facebook Messenger with Jon Millican and Timothy Buck

Facebook Messenger has finally been end-to-end encrypted, a couple of years after Mark Zuckerberg announced it! Plus Instagram DMs are trialing ephemeral E2EE DMs too! We invited on Jon Millican and Timothy Buck from Meta to discuss this major cross-platform endeavor, and how David Bowie fits into their personal Labyrinth.

Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/12/28/e2ee-fb-messenger/

Links:

- https://www.facebook.com/notes/2420600258234172 - https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1044.pdf - https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/06/security/building-end-to-end-security-for-messenger/ - https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/6/23991501/facebook-messenger-default-end-to-end-encryption-meta - https://www.threads.net/@jonmillican/post/C0kQPAyoFpr - https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MessengerEnd-to-EndEncryptionOverview_12-6-2023.pdf - https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TheLabyrinthEncryptedMessageStorageProtocol_12-6-2023.pdf - https://engineering.fb.com/2022/03/10/security/code-verify/ - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/code-verify/llohflklppcaghdpehpbklhlfebooeog

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)

Release date

Lydbog: 28. december 2023