Google Messages finally strengthens the protection of your discussions

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Google announced on November 19 that its “Messages” app would benefit from end-to-end encryption.

This protection, already present in most of the American giant's competing applications, should not be deployed before 2021.

"End-to-end encryption ensures that no one, including Google, can read the content of your messages as they flow between your phone and that of your correspondent," Google said in a blogged statement.

Users are increasingly sensitive to the protection of their personal data.

It is therefore for the Mountain View firm to catch up on the matter in order to reassure them, explains

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The Signal protocol chosen by Google

"End-to-end encryption is only available when you and the person you're talking to have installed Messages and activated chat functions," Google says.

This new security will initially only concern conversations between two “Messages” users.

For group discussions, you will have to be patient.

Google specified that this encryption would be operated using the Signal protocol, already used by certain competitors and whose merits have been praised by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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