Apple Announces 'Groundbreaking' New Security Protocol for iMessage

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Apple Announces 'Groundbreaking' New Security Protocol for iMessage::Apple today announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage called PQ3. Apple says this "groundbreaking" and...

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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.