The instant messaging app Line now has a new security layer called Letter Sealing to ensure that no person other than the sender and the receiver read the messages sent through your application.
Letter Sealing is available in the latest version for iOS and Android, but the feature is not enabled by default, so you must enter the settings app and activate yourself. To avoid entering each menu and find out where the function is, here’s how to enable this feature.
For this guide we use images Line Interface for iOS, but the steps are the same for Android. The only thing you need is the app version 5.3.0, or later.
Line for your platform, do the following: Settings (three buttons) & gt; Settings & gt; Chats and voice calls & gt; Sealing Letter activate .
It is important to mention that Use of this feature requires that the sender and receiver of the message have active Letter Sealing, because the key to decrypt the message is stored in the device of the recipient, and not have the feature enabled, the encryption can not be used.
Also, by enabling Letter Sealing can not view the messages and not be able to answer the notification -. will need to enter the app and answer directly from the chat window Encryption does not show the message in the notification .
Line says his Letter Sealing tool converts the application in the first messaging platform with a level of security so advanced. Line claims that by storing the key in the user’s device, is “technically impossible “that the message content can be read on a company server or a third party.
Sealing Security Letter (technically known as E2EE for End-to-end encryption), shuffle the message a puzzle that can only be ordered with a key that is stored on the user’s device.
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