WhatsApp owned by Facebook is an application used by almost all of us. It has become the medium of connecting to our friends, family, and colleagues. Gone are the days of text messages as now we have unlimited access to this service with the invention of Whatsapp. Day by day WhatsApp gets its updates and all new features are added to the application. Which is used by people all around the globe. With the addition of features now WhatsApp has also decided to place a layer of security for the security of its users.
One of the features added to WhatsApp is the encryption of messages sent between users. WhatsApp also is working on adding the encryption of chats feature to chat backups stored in the cloud. This version of WhatsApp is available only in testing right now. And soon will be available to the public all across the globe.
However, there won’t be any changes in the process of backup to google drive. As so but the application might want to add more options. That will display an option generating a 64-digit code or encryption key for those backups. WhatsApp will also be introducing a safe space by providing a cloud-based vault for the maintenance of confidentiality of each user’s encryption key. The vault can be safely locked and secured with the passcode of the user’s choice.
Facebook/WhatsApp also confirmed this feature of encryption.
WhatsApp has been working on making cloud backup more secure. To increase the user experience and to determine the contents of the chat backup so that the size of the backup is as small as possible. Google has also been getting a little more alert about the amount of storage. It provides to its users and could soon start limiting WhatsApp backup against all user’s storage units. You can simply update WhatsApp while the play store or App Store and get the new feature.
How does the addition of the encryption feature help?
- No one can have access to the encryption code/key or the chat backup history of any individual user.
- Nor WhatsApp nor any specific service network provider will be able to have access to these chat histories backups.
- But if the user enables the end-to-end encryption of chats. No one other than the user can have access to the encryption key. So it is very important for the user to remember it.
The WhatsApp application users will have a choice of two options while setting an encryption key: –
- Either the user can Manually store the encryption key.
- The user can set a password of their own choice while setting it.
So, it is indeed very important for the user to remember the password. If you forget it, you won’t be able to access your chats History back up.
Maybe WhatsApp can provide you with an option to reset the password. You have to follow some steps to maintain the security of your data.
If you are using WhatsApp on multiple devices. Then you need to keep in mind that this feature will only be applicable to your main device. So in order to achieve the backup, Google always has to have access to the main device.
Conclusion
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