If WhatsApp messages are end to end encrypted, how can WhatsApp show me the code used to encrypt those messages?

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If WhatsApp messages are end to end encrypted, how can WhatsApp show me the code used to encrypt those messages?

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The miracle of cryptography is you can gather a room full of people, give them a lecture on the algorithm that is going to be used, and then have two people yell numbers back and forth across the room, while everyone else in the room carefully listens, and the two people are able to establish a secret that nobody else in the room can figure out.

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