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would this work for android?

At least in the past, the android whatsapp database was encrypted, and you needed either a rooted phone or some shenanigans requesting the key from the whatsapp service.

(the Google Drive backup of it is not encrypted, but ... it's also not accessible to you! Facebook and Google are dealing your data behind your back, but don't believe you have any rights to access this data except through the tiny whatsapp app window)

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...

I'll add this link on GitHub - thanks!

re: original question: AFAIK since Android 8 there is encryption of everything exported.

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