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		microtonal on May 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App Keep in mind that Whatsapp still supports pretty old devices (Nokia S40/60), where you may not want to encrypt every image N times. Edit: remove some stuff.

kccqzy on May 12, 2016 [–]

Actually iMessage doesn't encrypt each image N times. It encrypts once, upload it to a server, then encrypts the image encryption key N times.

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