[Cryptography] At what point should people not use TLS?

Bill Cox waywardgeek at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 12:16:00 EDT 2016


On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 8:00 PM, david wong <davidwong.crypto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> WhatsApp just announced end-to-end encryption on their service, and the
> details show that they do not use TLS but another TLS-like protocol called
> Noise Pipes which was designed by one man. From Moxie ( https://news.
> ycombinator.com/item?id=11431623 ):
>

Noise Pipes looks very cool, but I cannot find any source code used by
WhatsApp that implements Noise Pipes.  Can any of you folks find it?  I am
interested in trying to understand the security of their implementation,
but can't find the source code.

Thanks,
Bill
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