Twitter plans to resume end-to-end encrypted direct messages
With the arrival of Elon Musk on Twitter, the proposal made a few years ago for the end-to-end encryption application regains strength
Twitter plans to introduce end-to-end encrypted direct messaging (DM) to the platform, a feature it worked on years ago and one that reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong recently warned about.
With the arrival of Elon Musk to the social network, in which he now appears as the owner, the billionaire has announced changes and proposals for this new era, such as the payment verification program, among others. Another of the alternatives proposed by the new Twitter address would be the introduction of end-to-end encrypted direct messages, a feature that the company already worked on a few years ago.
In 2018 the company called this functionality Secret Conversation and tested it for a small group of users. So, it introduced the ‘Start Secret Conversation’ button and initially only allowed text sharing.
In this way, it ruled out the sending and receiving of emojis, animated GIFs or images. Finally, unlike other brands like Meta (then Facebook), which already have this system in WhatsApp and Messenger, it chose not to introduce this alternative.
Now, Jane Manchun Wong has found indications that Twitter is developing this function in her direct messages in the platform’s line of code, which she has shared in a screenshot on her personal profile. The reverse engineering expert has indicated that she has found end-to-end message encryption in the version of Twitter for Android devices, but has not commented on the iOS or web version.
Precisely, Musk has responded to Manchun Wong’s publication and has put the smiley of a winking face, which could confirm that the social network is contemplating resuming this function. For her part, the reverse engineering expert has only commented that she is convinced that “there will be third-party security audits on the implementation of encrypted messages when it is launched.”
This would not be the only feature that the social network would resume with the arrival of Elon Musk at the company, since in early November Axios reported that Twitter planned to introduce the Vine short-form video application.
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Source: dpa
