Pushbullet is a popular app that lets users reply to messages and notifications on their Android device using their PC, the app has been updated today and it now offers end-to-end encryption for SMS messages, notification mirroring, universal copy & paste and more. This has been a popular feature request from the community and the app has finally been updated to bring these features to all users.
While Pushbullet makes it extremely easy to view incoming messages and notifications on a PC for this purpose it does need to forward some personal data between the users’ two devices. The app has always used https secure connections but the downside with that is the data is still visible to Pushbullet.
To improve user privacy and ensure that nobody but the user can read their data Pushbullet has added support for end-to-end encryption, this means that the data is encrypted even before it leaves the device and it isn’t decrypted until it reaches the other device. Pushbullet can’t see it because it only forwards encrypted data.
Setting up this feature is quite easy, users need to pick a password and enter it on each device, passwords aren’t stored so users have to do this manually for each device. This password is used to derive a key that’s used to encrypt data. The new option can be found in the app’s Settings screen labeled “End-to-end encryption.”
End-to-end encryption is supported in the latest Android, Chrome and Windows desktop app, Pushbullet for iOS and Mac will receive this update soon and so will Opera, Safari and Firefox.
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