BBM Protected to come to Android and iOS in the fall, upping the encryption ante

BlackBerry announced that BBM Protected will be available in June as part of the company's enterprise platform, but it's going to reach Android and iOS sometime in November with the launch of BES12. BBM Protected adds Suite B-compliant encryption (the minimum protection level for classified communications within the US government) on top of BBM's 3DES Universal Key encryption. This means that each message within the conversation is encrypted with its own random key. This way, even if potential attackers manage to eavesdrop and crack some keys, they will only get one particular message.



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