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India says its system can add traceability to encrypted WhatsApp Chats

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The government of India claims it has found a way around preserving end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp chats, while also enabling traceability of the messages to the origin. While there has been not an official announcement, officials claim the government has proposed that WhatsApp should assign an alphanumeric hash to every message sent over WhatsApp.