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Self PGP encrypted text manually pasted into WhatsApp. Share public keys with your contacts so they can send stuff for you to decrypt. And vice versa.

It’s clunky but it’s pretty damn secure. The following message is what “GFY” looks like encrypted to my public key, for example. I use InstantPGP on iOS, Kleopatra on PC and Linux. And GPG Keychain on MacOS.

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

Charset: UTF-8
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=qQmg
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----