Apple Announces ‘Groundbreaking’ New Security Protocol for iMessage::Apple today announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage called PQ3. Apple says this “groundbreaking” and…

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    9 months ago

    Quantum-safe or Beeper-safe?

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      9 months ago

      Beeper didn’t work by cracking iCloud’s encryption. The user’s key was still needed to decrypt a message. Beeper and Apple couldn’t see the contents of an iCloud message, only the end users.

      As I recall, Beeper’s secret sauce was around authenticating from a 3rd party client.