<story><title>Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/facebook-messenger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sweis</author><text>I am confident Facebook will meet your high standards when it comes to E2E encryption for Messenger.</text></item><item><author>etiam</author><text>&amp;quot;End-To-End Encrypted ‘Secret Conversations’&amp;quot; in software that is ordinarily used to harvest electronic phone books and rummage through user photos, from a company that made its whole fortune trying to obliterate privacy as a part of human culture?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s going to be pretty high standards of proof to give this anything that resembles credibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sweis</author><text>And we had some smart outside people review it:
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<story><title>Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/facebook-messenger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sweis</author><text>I am confident Facebook will meet your high standards when it comes to E2E encryption for Messenger.</text></item><item><author>etiam</author><text>&amp;quot;End-To-End Encrypted ‘Secret Conversations’&amp;quot; in software that is ordinarily used to harvest electronic phone books and rummage through user photos, from a company that made its whole fortune trying to obliterate privacy as a part of human culture?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s going to be pretty high standards of proof to give this anything that resembles credibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sweis</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a whitepaper to start:
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