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How do end-to-end encryption (E2EE) IM apps implementing push notifications? [duplicate]

Say WhatsApp and Signal on Android devices, how do they keep the E2EE not be broken? Some answers claimed that WhatsApp uses VoIP background mode on iOS to make the push notification invoke the app to ...
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Signal — Can message previews of the messages you send be disabled in the chats’ list of your addressee?

Premise Signal is armed with measures to instil a sense of privacy in users by preventing undisclosed screenshotting and screencasting message threads, and by enabling the sender to set their text, ...
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What can my Telco / ISP learn from my Signal (secure messaging app) communications?

To preface this question, I use Signal messaging app for voice, video and text. I understand that the content of all these messages are encrypted and no-one but the sender and recipient can see/hear ...
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Is the video/audio traffic from WebRTC TURN relay servers encrypted end-to-end? As with the applications Signal and Jitsi Meet

Today I found a video on YouTube that surprised me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkc3sE6iKV4). It is by Rob Braxman, a privacy advocate with a lot of expertise. He talks about all kinds of video ...
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What secure mobile messaging app is publicly known to be the most frustrating for state intelligence to read? [closed]

I imagine like either leaked or otherwise published official memos on efforts and signals intelligence programs to intercept and crack different types of communications either lamenting or chronicling ...
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Why is there no web client for Signal?

I’ve read about E2EE (end to end encryption) of Signal in web clients on a Signal Community discussion forum, and wonder why they say that the browser is insecure for E2EE and native apps are secure. ...
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Meaning of unacknowledged pre key messages

I've recently tried to work with the Signal protocol, but the documentation isn't great. I've come across a problem where the messages being sent include the pre key because the client has ...
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How to use Username/Password in Signal Protocol

I am trying to create a communication app from scratch (more like an html parsed messaging app) using the Signal protocol. While I do have lot to of programming experience, I am a crypto novice and ...
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HTTP body E2E encryption protocol

I have 2 servers that communicate each other in HTTP and they are both behind an API gateway. Between the servers and their API gateways the communication is in HTTPS with mutual authentication using ...
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