How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups

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The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people to protect their backed-up message history with a recovery code, ensuring that the recovery code is stored in tamper-resistant hardware security modules (HSMs) and is inaccessible to Meta, cloud storage [...] Read More... The post How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Published 1 May 2026
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