alt Hacker NewsI think part of the problem is that prior to WhatsApp's E2EE implementation in like 2014, TLS was very often called "End to End Encryption" as the ends were Client and Server/Service Provider. It got redefined and now the new usage is way more popular than the old one.
I can't blame most people for calling TLS "E2EE", even some folks in industry, but it's not great for a company to advertise that you offer X if the meaning of X has shifted so drastically in the last decade.
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> prior to WhatsApp's E2EE implementation in like 2014, TLS was very often called "End to End Encryption"
That's pretty wild
The reason that a different term had to be invented was that some centralized messaging system defined itself as "encrypted" when it begun to use TLS.
It would have been stupid to pick a term commonly used for TLS to differentiate yourself from TLS
The two endpoints of the communication with Kohler's app are the client and the server. In WhatsApp's E2EE implementation the endpoints are two client devices. Both are valid meanings of E2EE. You're defining that "end to end" means the server cannot access it but that's simply not what it means.
I’m pushing back on that one. I’ve been running websites since the ‘90s, and I’ve never heard E2EE used that way until very recently by vendors who, bluntly, want to lie about it.