Matthew Green on Nostr: The original iMessage protocol was launched in 2011 and was really amazing for the ...

The original iMessage protocol was launched in 2011 and was really amazing for the time, since it instantly provided e2e messaging to huge numbers of people. But cryptographically, it wasn’t very good. My students broke it in 2015: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/johns-hopkins-researchers-discovered-encryption-flaw-in-apples-imessage/2016/03/20/a323f9a0-eca7-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html