Technical Breakdown of Bluetooth Contact Tracing
Channel: Triple E
Date: 2020-04-19

Last week Apple and Google announced a partnership in developing a contact tracing API using bluetooth. The intention is for the API to work cross-platform on both an Android and an iPhone seamlessly.

Accompanying the announcement was some preliminary specifications covering both the Bluetooth and cryptography components of the API. We look at breaking this down and going into detail of how this is all going to work, according to Apple and Google.

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