As Apple gets ready to ship RCS messaging support on the iPhone in 2024, one of the biggest concerns the company has expressed is the lack of any kind of encryption. Such encryption would keep chats private and secure and iMessage has been encrypted since it launched years ago. Now, the company has announced an upgrade to that encryption that makes your iMessage chats more private than ever before. Fear not, the chances of someone intercepting that super-secret chili recipe are now much, much less.
How much less? Apple seems to be pretty convinced that its new PQ3 cryptographic security upgrade is about as good as it gets, saying that as far as it's aware, "PQ3 has the strongest security properties of any at-scale messaging protocol in the world." That's quite the claim, and it's backed it up with receipts as well.
