[robbedpeter]

Signal protocol is used between whatsapp server and endpoint, not from endpoint to endpoint. Once your message is on their server, it's decrypted, archived, inspected, and then passed to its intended recipient.

[mccorrinall]

This is not true.

There is a deep technical explanation about how e2ee works in WhatsApp: https://scontent-frt3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.8562-6/271639644_...