WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People
The article says:
"With end-to-end encryption in place, not even WhatsApp’s employees can read the data that’s sent across its network."But according to the diagram:
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Whatsapp_Enc...... A's message is encrypted with Whatsapp's public key, which means that Whatsapp's private key can (and has to) decrypt it on the server side to encrypt it in turn with B's public key.If the diagram is truthful, the claims the article makes are incorrect.