Is Twitter Implementing Signal Protocol for Encrypted DMs?

Elon Musk Twitter News: One of Elon Musk’s major objectives at Twitter is to enable encrypted messaging on the social media platform. In what is termed as Twitter 2.0 project, Musk is said to have informed employees about the plan to implement encrypted DMs. Reports suggested that Musk wants to also enable encrypted video and voice calling between individual users. In this context, it appears Twitter is making use of the Signal protocol to implement the encrypted messaging service.

Signal Protocol To Power Twitter Encrypted DMs?

In a latest, security researchers hint at finding code references of the Signal protocol in Twitter’s software. Jane Manchun Wong, a digital creator, said the social media platform is moving in the direction of adopting Signal for encrypted DMs. If this comes to be true, it could mean a significant step as part of Musk’s plans. Interestingly, Meta’s Facebook Messenger has also been using the Signal protocol since 2016.

“Twitter will adopt the Signal Protocol for Encrypted DMs. Seeing code references of the Signal Protocol inside Twitter’s iOS app.”

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