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tptacek on April 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Viber adds end-to-end encryption

It sounds like there's not yet any published details on what the crypto Viber's using is. Can we withhold judgement until we get that? I'm fine with closed-source, but not with no technical documentation.

Most people who try to implement cryptographically secure messaging get it badly wrong.

limelight on April 19, 2016 [–]

We absolutely do need to get some documentation to judge whether Viber has good crypto.

That being said, we can still judge them positively for at least trying to secure their user's messages end-to-end.

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