Reverse-engineer maestro
Jane Manchun Wong spotted references to the Signal protocol in the iOS Twitter app. This strongly suggests that the company plans to use the same E2E encryption used by secure messaging app Signal.
She had
previously spotted E2E encryption pointers in the Android app, though not references to Signal.
This code is open-source, which provides two benefits. First, anyone is free to use it. Second, anyone can examine the code to ensure that it does what is claimed, and to try to spot weaknesses in it.
As for Twitter’s implementation, software engineer
Brandon Carpenter said that he wrote the code back in 2018 while at Twitter.
He says the reason Twitter didn’t implement it at the time was difficulty in providing the same DM features as the standard version.