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This was announced last year, way before any of Beeper’s shenanigans.

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/07/new-imessage-apple-id-s...

Beeper was released at least two years prior to that.

And that’s not what I’m referring to by their shenanigans.

Specifically I’m talking about their beeper mini spoofing of Apple devices, not the other beeper setup that forwarded content to/from an actual Mac.

I don't think this is related. This is just public key verification, the kind that other E2E messaging apps already had. I don't know about the specifics but as I understand, Beeper Mini could implement this too if they want to.

Theoretically the two are orthogonal. There's no reason why Beeper wouldn't be able to implement contact key verification; there's no hardware attestation component to it, as far as I can tell.

Practically, the added complexity of having to integrate with iCloud Keychain certainly won't help.