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sotix on Aug 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”

What's app literally uses the signal protocol[0] for the exchanging of messages.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

zaik on Aug 10, 2022 [–]

The Signal protocol is an encryption protocol and not a message exchange protocol.

I think WhatsApp is built on ejabberd for message exchange and possibly could be able to federate using XMPP.

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