What is end-to-end encryption?
This content was published on July 11, 2016
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- Deutsch Was ist End-zu-End-Verschlüsselung?
- Español ¿Qué es el cifrado de un extremo al otro?
- Português O que é um sistema “end-to-end”?
- 中文 何谓“端对端”加密？
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Compared to encryption using a server, end-to-end encryption ensures that the only people who can read a message are the sender and the recipient. How does it work? (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch)
Compared with the most widely used type of encryption using a server, end-to-end encryption ensures that the only people who read a message are the sender and the receiver. This is possible because with end-to-end encryption, data is encrypted with separate keys that are not stored on the server but on the client’s device.
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