WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread

Or you can set your own password on Android, and therefore not require rooting. (WhatsApp gives you that option) I do that for my own backups. Download them via Google Drive [0] and then use this tool to decrypt them [1][2] [0] https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre... [1] https://github.com/ElDavoo/WhatsApp-Crypt14-Crypt15-Decrypte... [2] https://github.com/ElDavoo/WhatsApp-Crypt14-Crypt15-Decrypte...

> This sends an encrypted blob of all your messages to Apple/Google, and WhatsApp holds the key It is a plain text backup to Google Drive. There is no key Whatsapp holds. Google can read it all, and has revealed the chats to help the Govt in multiple high profile cases here in India. You can extract it yourself, with the credentials of your Google account- https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre... > You’re referring to the optional backup that requires users to opt-in. With telegram, if you enable secret chats, it is never backed up to the cloud. It is a guarantee, unlike Whatsapp where you do not know whether your contact has enabled cloud backups Full disclosure: I begrudgingly use WhatsApp. I really don’t like it. You’re spreading misinformation, though.

You can extract it yourself. https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre... I do not vouch for this repo, but it gets the job done. The only creds required are your Google account creds. No per-user whatsapp keys necessary.

There is no "official" way for you to download it. IIRC it is stored in your Google Drive under an API key that is dedicated to whatsapp (in some kind of per-app storage). I don't really know much about Google Drive API. However, I am fairly sure that the key is in the binary on your phone, so it shouldn't be much of a challenge to get access. I think there was something like this on Github once, that no longer works (due to trivial changes, likely). Update: https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre... Looks recent, didn't try myself.

The local database inside /data/data/ is not encrypted. However, backups (both local backups and Drive backups) are encrypted with a key generated on WhatsApp's servers when you log in. You can access the Google Drive backup with this third-party tool, which admittedly is less than ideal: https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre...