Secure messaging arrives on Twitter - sort of. 'Don't trust it yet,' Musk warns

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Twitter also doesn't offer any way to report encrypted messages for harassment or abuse, although it will be possible to block individual senders. Twitter encryption also doesn't provide what's called “forward secrecy," which would prevent an attacker who gets hold of a user's private key from using it to read earlier and subsequent messages. In its official document, Twitter says forward secrecy techniques aren't compatible with user expectations that they'll always be able to obtain their historical messages from the cloud. A final issue: Users won't have any way to make encrypted messages a default setting; they'll have to deliberately choose encryption each time they start a new conversation.