WhatsApp Messenger is the largest text messaging network on the globe, Facebook announcing that more than 600 million users use the services of the WhatsApp company that was acquired by it during this year. Despite this dominance on the market of text messaging applications, WhatsApp Messenger has been heavily criticized due to the fact that it does not encrypt the messages sent between users, as they can be intercepted in transit. Well, this problem has been solved, at least on the Android platform, where WhatsApp implements a message reading system so that even it will not be able to decrypt them for reading.
The most recent update to WhatsApp's Android app includes a surprising feature: strong end-to-end encryption, enabled by default. It's the strongest security any major texting app has offered, even compared with similar tools from giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple. "End-to-end" means that, unlike messages encrypted by Gmail or Facebook Chat, WhatsApp won't be able to decrypt the messages itself, even if the company is compelled by law enforcement.
WhatsApp Messenger includes now a software produced by Open Whisper Systems to encrypt users' messages and thus the service becomes more secure than iMessage, Facebook Messenger or Google's messaging services. Although it may seem like a minor change to some, the implementation of this encryption system is a big step forward made by WhatsApp Messenger, now Android terminal users can safely discuss anything. The implementation of the code required to encrypt messages required 6 months of work from WhatsApp and Open Whisper companies, so for now it is not known when we will have something similar in iOS.
