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

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