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How Cloudflare verifies the code WhatsApp Web serves to users

What's this blog post about?

WhatsApp has partnered with Cloudflare to provide a system that assures users that the code run when they visit WhatsApp on the web is the code that WhatsApp intended. The new system, called Code Verify, compares a hash of the code executing in a user's browser with a hash held by Cloudflare, enabling users to easily see whether the code running is the correct version. This collaboration aims to improve privacy and security on the web and help other organizations verify the code delivered to users is the intended one.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
March 10, 2022

Author(s)
Matt Silverlock, James Allworth, Mari Galicer

Word count
1089

Hacker News points
18

Language
English


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