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Side-by-side screen captures provided by Apple of Messages showing how Contact Key Verification will work: at left, screen shows someone in conversation with “Jenny” sending an address, with a warning at the bottom (yield sign): “An unrecognized device may have been added to Jenny’s account.” At right, the Verify Contact display is shown within a person’s Messages Info pane, displaying a verification code (4892 1736) and the buttons No Match and Mark as Verified.

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Side-by-side screen captures provided by Apple of Messages showing how Contact Key Verification will work: at left, screen shows someone in conversation with “Jenny” sending an address, with a warning at the bottom (yield sign): “An unrecognized device may have been added to Jenny’s account.” At right, the Verify Contact display is shown within a person’s Messages Info pane, displaying a verification code (4892 1736) and the buttons No Match and Mark as Verified.
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Glenn Fleishman (glennf@twit.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 06:35:41 JST Glenn Fleishman

Apple shortly introduces a much-needed feature for iMessage for users with a high degree of risk of having their communications intercepted or other parties impersonated: Contact Key Verification. At its heart, it's a way to shift the end-to-end trust in iMessages from Apple’s central servers to each party’s copy of Messages on their devices. I explain in short, medium, and long versions. @TidBITS https://tidbits.com/2023/11/08/upcoming-contact-key-verification-feature-promises-secure-identity-verification-for-imessage/ The feature should arrive in iOS/iPadOS 17.2, macOS 14.2, and watchOS 10.2.

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