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by ianburrell 4230 days ago
The main reason why you won't see end-to-end encryption for Facebook is that the messages are also available through the Facebook web site in addition to Facebook Messenger app. Which means that the Facebook servers need to store the key to display the messages.
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If you use a different key to encode the message for each client (web or app) then this is not necessary. This is how iMessage works.