This ensures that users are not at risk. French messaging service Olvid, foisted on ministers Elisabeth Borne, on Tuesday defended itself against any security breach following allegations related in part to the use of US giant AWS servers.
“Olvid does not create any centralized directory of its users, does not collect their IP addresses (connected device IDs, editor’s notes) or their connection data, and everything is encrypted end-to-end using the highest level encryption algorithms.” security,” said its CEO and co-founder Thomas Benier.
Messages hosted on AWS
The website L’Informé last week, as well as Le Canard Enchaîné, which will be published on Wednesday, criticized Olvid for the fact that its message distribution server is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon subsidiary, and is therefore subject to American extraterritorial laws. which allow, in principle, the American authorities to lay claim to them. “The fact that these are AWS servers is not important from a security point of view because it is encrypted data with security level encryption. To say that this encryption could one day be broken is a conspiracy, because if it were, there would be nothing secure on the Internet anymore, not financial transactions or anything else,” said Thomas Benier.
The company displays on its website that it has a message distribution server hosted on AWS. Olvid, owned by French co-founders, is the only messaging service whose security is certified by ANSSI (Agency National for the Security of Information Systems). At the end of November, the Prime Minister asked ministers and their cabinets to replace classic messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal with Olvid, still unknown to the general public, which the government considers more secure.
Last week, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, began end-to-end encryption of “all private conversations and calls on Messenger and Facebook,” as it already does on WhatsApp. This is despite the opposition of many governments, which, unlike France, oppose this, fearing that these messengers will be used by criminals who have become impossible to trace.
Source: Le Parisien
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