After the biggest news of WhatsApp launch their end to end chat encryption Viber follows their journey to bring the online privacy to its users. On the third week of April 2016, Viber announced that the cat from start to finish encryption will be available. Although there is no specific date when it is. The deployment will be available in two weeks, but no specific date yet. It apply to one-to-one conversations, group messages and multi-platform messages. Their users will do everything to encrypt their messages except to update their Viber application to its latest version. Michael Shmilov, COO of Viber wrote in a blog post " Today we are pleased to announce that our users will be able to communicate securely across their devices by from end to end encryption We worked on this for a long time and are proud that our users can use with Viber confidence without fear of their messages are intercepted. - whether in a one-to-one or group message, a call on the desktop, mobile or tablet. "
Although WhatsApp has over a billion users and Viber has about 700 million users worldwide, the development is not very significant fact to WhatsApp. To Viber, users will receive a notification saying that their conversation had been fully encrypted and can confirm encryption state looking for this gray padlock on the application. A single cryptographic key associated with the user's device an extra layer of security will also be provided by Viber. It will allow the user to manually authenticate contact as their reliable contact and will change the color green to lock. Once the color of the lock to red, it means that the authentication key is a problem. It can be user changed his device, or indicate a man-in-the-middle attack. The user must check again to confirm the new authentication key.
There is another feature that is Viber announced the launch of Hidden Chats. It is a security feature that allows users to hide their specific cats on the home screen of their devices. These hidden cats are invisible to everyone except users hide. An additional level of privacy will be given to users who may share a device with the family members and colleagues. They also develop into different types of services such as business deals. It will enable companies to communicate with customers using the application. Avita Litan told NewsFactor that "Corporate customers are certainly concerned about backdoors. They do not want the US .or any other government spy on their employees. "With this new encryption have only tells us how messaging applications are in the online privacy as
. Source: newsfactor.com
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