A coalition of researchers and cryptographers are urging the Guardian to retract a story it published last week which suggested the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp contained a backdoor.

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook discuss security-wise what they hope will and won’t change under a Trump presidency, then discuss the news of the week, including SHA-1 deprecation, Carbanak’s return, and the WhatsApp “backdoor” debacle.

Academics audited the popular end-to-end encryption app Signal and their findings are encouraging.

Open Whisper Systems announced that it has added the disappearing messages feature to the Signal encrypted messaging app.

Open Whisper Systems, the group behind Signal, was served with a subpoena earlier this year but was unable to produce most of the data it was asked for.

iPhone users can now use Signal’s secure messaging app between their iOS device and their Mac OS or Windows desktops.

Signal has fixed bugs in its Android messaging app that allow an attacker to corrupt an encrypted attachment and remotely crash the application.

Facebook today began a test program rolling out opt-in end-to-end encryption for its Messenger service called Secret Conversations. The end-to-end encryption is based on the Signal protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, the same protocol that stands up the crypto in the Signal and WhatsApp messaging applications. The Facebook version of the encryption service is...

Facebook today began a test program rolling out opt-in end-to-end encryption for its Messenger service called Secret Conversations. The end-to-end encryption is based on the Signal protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, the same protocol that stands up the crypto in the Signal and WhatsApp messaging applications. The Facebook version of the encryption service is...

Reaction to the release of Google’s Allo messaging app has been mixed since it was unveiled Wednesday during Google’s I/O event. Allo has two modes, a normal mode run by an artificial intelligence that includes Google Assistant. It analyzes messages and offers suggestions based on the content that could include things like restaurant, movie or...