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WhatsApp activated end to end encrypted messaging for over a billion users. Here’s an explainer Video & some pointers on the whats, whys and hows. Text Excerpts from a Hindustan Times report. WhatsApp has extended the option of communicating over the application without being eavesdropped on. The encryption feature has been developed by the messaging giant with support from Open Whisper Systems, the makers of another popular messaging app, Signal. This means, messages sent using the app will be end-to-end encrypted: Once a message leaves the sender’s phone, it is turned into a series of numbers and alphabets that only the intended receiver’s phone can decipher. So what does it do, why does it matter, and what is not encrypted? 1. What does end to end encryption do: In a blog post, the Facebook-owned company explains: “The idea is simple: When you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one ...