Twitter is officially starting to roll out support Encrypted Direct Message (DM) It’s been over six months since CEO Elon Musk confirmed plans for this feature in November 2022.
“Phase 1” of this initiative will appear as a separate conversation alongside existing direct messages in users’ inboxes. Encrypted chats are visually distinguished by a lock icon badge.
That said, opt-in functionality is currently limited to verified users or affiliates of verified organizations. It’s also important that both the sender and recipient are using the latest version of his Twitter app on Android, iOS, and desktop web.
That said, this feature is currently limited to verified users or affiliates of verified organizations. It’s also important that both the sender and recipient are using the latest version of the Twitter app on Android, iOS, and desktop web.
Another criterion for sending and receiving encrypted messages is that the recipient must follow the sender, has sent the sender a message in the past, or has at some point received a direct message request from the sender. It means that you have accepted
Twitter hasn’t disclosed the exact methods it uses to protect its messages, but says it employs a “combination of strong cryptographic schemes” to encrypt user messages, links and reactions. says.
Further emphasized that encrypted chat content remains encrypted while stored in our infrastructure and is decrypted at the recipient’s end. This implementation will be open sourced later this year.
That said, the ongoing nature of the project also means that it does not support encrypted group conversations or exchange media or other attachments.
- A user can only register up to 10 devices to send and receive encrypted messages.
- New devices (devices that have reinstalled the Twitter app) cannot join existing encrypted conversations
- Logging out of Twitter will call out all messages, including encrypted DMs, and remove them from your current device
It also states that the current architecture does not “provide protection against man-in-the-middle attacks” and does not guarantee forward secrecy. another session.
“If a registered device’s private key is compromised, an attacker could potentially decrypt all encrypted messages sent and received by that device,” Twitter said, adding that the restriction would keep a larger user count. He added that he has no plans to fix the . Keep your experience in mind.
