July 24 (Portaltic/EP) –
Google he works in a interoperability of messaging applications to maintain the privacy and security of users, something that would facilitate the specification called message layer security (Message Layer Security, MLS) and that the company plans to implement in its ‘app’ Messages.
The end-to-end encryption prevents third-party access to the communications that users maintain in messaging ‘apps’, such as WhatsApp, Messenger or Telegram. Prevents someone outside the conversation from accessing its content.
However, this protection hinders the interoperability of applications. For this reason, from Google they consider that it is a standardization is necessary that does not increase implementation costs and that allows advanced messaging functions such as encrypted group conversations to be maintained without affecting security and privacy.
In this context, it has announced that it plans to incorporate into its Messages app the RFC 9420 MLS Specification, of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). As he explains, this technology “enables practical interoperability between services and platforms, scaling to multi-device user groups of thousands.”
And it’s “flexible enough to allow providers to address emerging threats to user privacy and security, such as quantum computing,” as noted in his official blog.
