Cryptography Experts Recommend Apple Replace its iMessage Encryption

Apple has implemented a series of short- and long-term defenses to its iMessage protocol after several issues were discovered by a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University, according to a report published today (via PatentlyApple). This attack is different to the one Johns Hopkins researchers discovered in March, which allowed an attacker to decrypt photos and videos sent over iMessage. The technical paper details how another method known as a "ciphertext attack" allowed them to retrospec...