It’s no secret by now that India wants to trace the origin of messages on apps such as WhatsApp and Signal. In its new social media policing rule, the government said that while it doesn’t want to categorically break the encryption, it wants to know who generated a particular message first. A report by the Economic Times yesterday suggested that some officials are proposing that WhatsApp should assign and store an alphanumeric hash to each message so as it could be traced back to the originator if it causes unlawful activity. An official who is involved in the traceability discussion said that…
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