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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Having the code doesn’t really help you, you need the data and the shared key, which is securely exchanged (Look up the Diffie-Helmam key exchange as an example), I explained it in another ELI5.

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