A petition which was filed sought a ban on WhatsApp on the ground that the messaging platform's end-to-end encryption could mean that communication on the App would be impossible to intercept was dismissed by the bench of the CJI. The petition said WhatsApp had enabled every message with a 256-bit encryption that cannot be broken into. Yadav had claimed that end-to-end encryption threatens national security. The petition said that in order to decrypt any message sent on WhatsApp,one would need a whopping115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,935 key combinations, which is almost impossible for even a super computer. And also that the decrypting a single 256-bit encrypted message would take hundreds of years.