Monday, August 22, 2016

Google Allo's incognito chats have Snapchat-like expiring messages, private notifications, and encryption keys

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The nice graphic you see above is the background of all your incognito conversations on Google Allo. It's one of the visual cues the app uses to let you differentiate between a regular chat and an incognito one. But what are these more secure chats and how exactly do they work?

Based on information we've obtained from a test preview version of Allo, here is what you should expect.

First, these chats are end-to-end encrypted (we've known they'll be using the Signal protocol for a while) with unique identity keys for each participant.

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Google Allo's incognito chats have Snapchat-like expiring messages, private notifications, and encryption keys was written by the awesome team at Android Police.



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