[Cryptography] WhatApp metadata broken; on deck: voice encryption

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Tue Oct 27 10:30:47 EDT 2015


FYI -- The authors seem very optimistic about capturing the voice encryption session keys soon.

WhatsApp network forensics: Decrypting and understanding the WhatsApp call signaling messages

http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/pubs/index.php?file=%2Fpub%2F10979%2FWhatsApp.pdf&id=10979

we were able to acquire the following artifacts from the network traffic:
* WhatsApp phone numbers.
* WhatsApp phone call establishment metadata and datetime stamps.
* WhatsApp phone call termination metadata and datetime stamps.
* WhatsApp phone call duration metadata and datetime stamps.
* WhatsApp's phone call voice codec (Opus).
* WhatsApp's relay server IP addresses used during the calls.



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