Timeline for How can WhatsApp recover messages sent to a damaged phone?
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| Jun 18, 2016 at 4:27 | vote | accept | Henrique Jung | ||
| Jun 17, 2016 at 16:46 | comment | added | TessellatingHeckler | @HenriqueJung It would not mean that. The message would be encrypted to her private key, Whatsapp can store the message, but cannot read it. Her private key is encrypted by her password, Whatsapp can store the private key but not use it. She can download both (with her account username and password), unlock the private key locally on her phone (with her account password ... which she just gave Whatsapp during login ... oh. I think I see the problem now. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 11:57 | comment | added | Henrique Jung | @TessellatingHeckler this would mean that it's not end-to-end encrypted after all. It would be a huge security hole. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 11:56 | comment | added | Henrique Jung | @A.Darwin just the messages from the dead period, the ones that were never received by the device. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 9:43 | history | edited | SilverlightFox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 9:09 | answer | added | David Schwartz | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 6:27 | comment | added | A. Darwin | Did you manage to recover all the messages, or just the older ones (say, before March, 31st)? | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 3:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/743286228812914688 | ||
| Jun 16, 2016 at 3:03 | comment | added | TessellatingHeckler | I'm not familiar with WhatsApp; Could a user's private key be stored on WhatsApp's servers, encrypted with their login password, so you reinstalled WhatsApp, she logged in, downloaded and decrypted the settings including her account's private key, and then could read the group messages? | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 1:30 | history | edited | Henrique Jung | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 1:25 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 1:21 | history | asked | Henrique Jung | CC BY-SA 3.0 |