Zuckerberg wants to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger

Facebook wants to provide more of its services with end-to-end encryption in the coming years. That says director Mark Zuckerberg in an explanation of the quarterly figures. He confirmed that Facebook wants to make its Messenger compatible with Instagram and WhatsApp.

It’s not a project set to release this year, but the ability to message people in WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger from the same backend will appear next year or later, Zuckerberg said in the notes. This will be done via end-to-end encryption. “People like this in WhatsApp,” says the Facebook CEO.

Therefore, according to Zuckerberg, end-to-end encryption is the direction Facebook should take with more services. “I think there’s an opportunity to work with what we’ve already done at WhatsApp, rather than doing it different ways in different chat apps, so that encryption works in a consistent way in everything we do.” WhatsApp works with the Signal protocol for encryption of messages. This works with the encryption algorithm 256-bit AES, which is known as secure. Messenger also supports end-to-end encryption, but this is not enabled by default.

By merging the backend of the different chat apps, traders on Facebook Marketplace should be able to easily contact customers via WhatsApp instead of Messenger. Facebook also wants to better secure the messages of tens of millions of users who use Messenger as the default SMS app on Android with the step. Zuckerberg announced his plans in a statement to the quarterly results. Those figures showed that the number of active Facebook users in Europe is rising again.