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## Messaging
All messaging in Status is subject to end-to-end encryption to provide users with a strong degree of privacy and security.
All 1:1 and group chat messaging in Status is subject to end-to-end encryption to provide users with a strong degree of privacy and security. Public chat messages are publicly readable by anyone since there's no permission model for who is participating in a public chat.
The rest of this document is purely about 1:1 and private group chat. Private group chat largely reduces to 1:1 chat, since there's a secure channel between each pair-wise participant.
### End-to-end encryption