Reposted by Douglas Stebila
Also, the article makes it sound as if our work is mostly concerned with the legal side of the Encrochat cases, but we gave a comprehensive technical account: eprint.iacr.org/2026/1319 We also discuss those open questions. We didn't have access to a device/image, limiting what we could establish.
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A Real-World Law-Enforcement Hack: The Case of Encrochat
In 2020, a coordinated law-enforcement effort infiltrated Encrochat, an end-to-end encrypted service provider, exfiltrating historical and real-time data and metadata over months. Encrochat was used e...
