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

Has anyone done that and produced a fully open source app to connect to whatsapp?

ryanlol on April 19, 2016 [–]

Lots of people.

https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup for example

ikeboy on April 19, 2016 | [–]

Looks like WhatsApp isn't so happy about that ...

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/20/whatsapp-cracks-down-on-people...

Do you know if the clients work with the new encryption?

ryanlol on April 19, 2016 | | [–]

Yes, axolotl is open source. (However I can't comment on how much it's been modified for the official client)

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