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by Talinx 2071 days ago
A closed-source App could send the private key to a server. I hope WhatsApp doesn't do that.
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They absolutely could. But, given the popularity of FB properties, I'm sure there are several groups who decompile their releases on a regular basis and I'm sure there'd be a lot of screaming if the E2EE wasn't implemented properly (see: the Zoom E2EE debacle).