The original post: /r/privacy by /u/finnabrahamson on 2024-11-13 18:29:06.

So I see an awful lot of tools for messaging these days that are claiming to use end to end encryption for messaging. The thing is: tools like Telegram, WhatsApp, or Google Messenger have never given me a place to enter a Private Key for their services. I’m sure that they have a way they claim this all works, but can we really trust them at all to do what they are claiming? If they are generating and storing our encryption keys for us, then the encryption doesn’t mean anything. How likely is it that these outfits have ways to retrieve the keys we use to unencrypt our messages?

Is there a way to provide any of these services with a key pair we generated ourselves? I really just don’t trust any of this software that is not open source.

Further: how likely is it that they are storing the unencrypted messages in a cache or other location that they can access on our device?

I highly doubt that any of these companies’ statements about our privacy means anything to them.