The article (the readme on github) takes the following quote wildly out of context:
> A recent high-profile forensic investigation reported that “due to end-to-end encryption employed by WhatsApp, it is virtually impossible to decrypt the contents of the downloader [.enc file]
This quote clearly means it is virtually impossible without the key. OF COURSE if you have full access to the device as a logged in user, then you can get access to the key and decrypt things that cannot be decrypted by others who do not have the key. Nothing to see here.
At least to the author’s credit the FAQ answers below clarify this, but not after the lead in, which is all most people read, has already done the damage of dramatically planting the incorrect impression that someone has figured out how to break WhatsApp encryption.
> A recent high-profile forensic investigation reported that “due to end-to-end encryption employed by WhatsApp, it is virtually impossible to decrypt the contents of the downloader [.enc file]
This quote clearly means it is virtually impossible without the key. OF COURSE if you have full access to the device as a logged in user, then you can get access to the key and decrypt things that cannot be decrypted by others who do not have the key. Nothing to see here.
At least to the author’s credit the FAQ answers below clarify this, but not after the lead in, which is all most people read, has already done the damage of dramatically planting the incorrect impression that someone has figured out how to break WhatsApp encryption.