WhatsApp turns on End-to-End Encryption To All Its Users

Update: update available in offical stores for apple ios ,google android ,windows store

WhatsApp turns on End-to-End Encryption by default for its Users Base

WhatsApp Just Switched on End-to-End Encryption by Default
WhatsApp is updating its messaging app so that every text message and voice call will be encrypted for the company’s users. as promised a year ago.

For More Info blog.whatsapp.com

Which means, from now every message, image or voice call you made will be secured by end-to-end encryption so that only you and the person you’re communicating with can read the content of the message, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp.
In other words, this also means that WhatsApp would not be able to comply with any court order that demands access to the content of any conversation happens over its service.
Starting today, you will see a notification on your WhatsApp conversation screen as your messenger becomes end-to-end encrypted, as shown in the screenshot.

“This is because your messages are secured with a lock, and only the recipient and you have the special key needed to unlock and read them,” Whatsapp says.

Additionally, you will be able to see a small lock icon below the profile of the recipient that ensures your conversation is secured with encryption.
“All of this happens automatically: no need to turn on settings or set up special secret chats to secure your messages,” the company adds.
Well, the latest version of WhatsApp mobile application offers you an option to verify the keys of the other users with whom you are communicating, ensuring prevention from the man-in-the-middle attack.

Whatsapp key verification can be done by scanning a QR code, or by comparing a 60-digit number, under newly introduced “verify security code” option in the WhatsApp.
verify the keys
“WhatsApp users can opt in to a preference which notifies them every time the security code for a contact changes.”
bout a year ago, Facebook partnered with ‘Open Whisper System’,