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

Brian Gladman brg at gladman.plus.com
Thu Apr 7 14:42:51 EDT 2016


On 07/04/2016 17:16, Bill Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 8:00 PM, david wong <davidwong.crypto at gmail.com
> <mailto: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.

I also looked for it as I wanted to find out well it was implemented.
But like yourself, I could not find anything.

   Brian



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