What is end-to-end encryption and how does it work?

WhatsApp, iMessage, Android Messages and Signal all use the super-secure system called end-to-end encryption. 

The technology means only the sender, at one end, and the receiver, at the other, can read messages, see media or hear phone calls. 

Even the app makers cannot access the content. 

But how does it work?

Facebook prepares WhatsApp Pay to launch in India

WhatsApp is set to launch its P2P payments system later this year, beginning in India, before rolling out to its 1.5 billion users globally. The Facebook-owned messaging system has been testing the system in India for the past year, where the app has 400 million users.

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Inside Wall Street’s WhatsApp Secret

From traders to bankers and money managers, just about everyone in finance is embracing apps like WhatsApp as an easy, and virtually untraceable, way to circumvent compliance, get around the HR police and keep bosses in the dark.

What’s Up with WhatsApp and Payments?

From PYMNTS.com –

“Almost exactly one year ago Facebook managed to shock just about everyone with its $19 billion dollar acquisition of chat app WhatsApp? Published reactions of disbelief included,
 

• “That’s gotta be a typo.”

• “That sounds exorbitant.”

• “Holy S–, that’s a big number.”

Note, those weren’t quotes from pundits or investors – those were the reactions of people who were building their own chat apps and would, at least, be expected to immediately agree with any high valuation. If people with hopes of selling their own “WhatsApps” thought the number sounded crazy – the number must be crazy, right?

Mark Zuckerberg, it seemed to many commentators, had simply gone wild with his (big) checkbook.”

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