WhatsApp will transfer contacts to the cloud and allow you not to reveal your phone number to your interlocutors

WhatsApp has announced a new feature – contacts will now be stored in the messenger cloud. This means that when you connect a new device, you no longer need to transfer them manually – they will immediately appear in the application.

Image source: WhatsApp

For now, the basis for the contact list is the phone book on the user’s device, and if a new person writes to him, then his data is saved locally. The new feature, which will appear soon, will provide access to contacts using any connection method, including in the web version of WhatsApp and in the Windows client. Contacts saved in the WhatsApp cloud can be synchronized with your phone.

Last year, the messenger added the ability to log into two WhatsApp accounts on one device – linking contacts to an account will be convenient when you need to separate personal and business ones. To store them in the cloud, the messenger administration has developed an Identity Proof Linked Storage (IPLS) security system. When a user saves a contact, an encryption key is generated on the device, and the primary device ID for that account is used to later retrieve it. The company that owns the messenger, Meta✴, has also enlisted the support of Cloudflare – the cloud provider digitally signs when making any changes to the user’s encrypted directories.

The technology that formed the basis of the cloud storage function for contacts will also be used to subsequently link them to user names. “Thanks to this, you will be able to communicate without revealing your phone number, and correspondence will become more confidential,” says the messenger’s blog. Competitors Signal and Telegram already have support for usernames.

admin

Share
Published by
admin

Recent Posts

Millionaire with a meager salary: it turned out how much the head of OpenAI earns

It is widely believed that the salaries of top managers of tech giants are measured…

18 minutes ago

Astronomers have photographed a dying star outside our galaxy for the first time – it doesn’t look as expected

Chilean astronomers have captured a close-up photo of the giant dying star WOH G64 outside…

2 hours ago

Technology for cooling chips with light presented – secret and by appointment only

At the SC24 high-performance computing conference in Atlanta, Maxwell Labs, a pioneer in solid-state photonic…

2 hours ago

In Japan, it was recommended to add your usernames and passwords to wills

The National Center for Consumer Affairs of Japan invited citizens of the country to take…

3 hours ago

Windows 11 updates will no longer restart PCs, but this doesn’t affect regular users

Incidents with unexpected Windows updates followed by the computer rebooting without warning may soon become…

3 hours ago