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Apple Announces 'Groundbreaking' New Security Protocol for iMessage (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apple Announces 'Groundbreaking' New Security Protocol for iMessage::Apple today announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage called PQ3. Apple says this "groundbreaking" and...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Beeper didn’t work by cracking iCloud’s encryption. The user’s key was still needed to decrypt a message. Beeper and Apple couldn’t see the contents of an iCloud message, only the end users.

As I recall, Beeper’s secret sauce was around authenticating from a 3rd party client.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah IIRC it was side channel