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Apple Announces 'Groundbreaking' New Security Protocol for iMessage
(www.macrumors.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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Quantum-safe or Beeper-safe?
Beeper didn’t work by cracking iCloud’s encryption. The user’s key was still needed to decrypt a message. Beeper and Apple couldn’t see the contents of an iCloud message, only the end users.
As I recall, Beeper’s secret sauce was around authenticating from a 3rd party client.
Yeah IIRC it was side channel