The history of cryptography dates back to ancient times when messages were sent between two parties in a secure manner. In the modern age of technology, information security plays a vital role in everyday life, from entering your login information on a Facebook website to just chatting on the WhatsApp messenger platform.
Have you ever wondered whether, while chatting with someone on WhatsApp, the messages you send and receive could be intercepted and read by another person who is not authorized to view them? In the past, WhatsApp did not provide an end-to-end encryption service, which means that, if a malicious user were performing a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack or even sniffing the traffic between the victim and the other person, they could see all the messages that were exchanged between the two parties in plain text. Some people think that they have...
