Comment by maqp
6 days ago
Telegram is a joke in professional cryptography circles https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/726428912968982529
6 days ago
Telegram is a joke in professional cryptography circles https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/726428912968982529
To me it's just not an encrypted messaging app. I don't even get all the discussions about it...
It's a bit like if we analysed the E2EE guarantees of email over and over again. Every year, multitudes of people would publish a post explaining how email is "badly encrypted". Well, email is not E2EE, period. If you want E2EE, use a system that has E2EE.
That would be fine unless Telegram
1) Didn't say it was "Heavily encrypted" on its front page.
2) Didn't claim it was more private than WhatsApp which is always end-to-end encrypted with Signal protocol.
3) Didn't claim secret chats were somehow adequate.
You're again linking to old critiques of an old protocol no longer in use. Can you stop doing that, please?
No. I will not stop pointing out the hubris and nepotism in the company. No real changes have been made in who's designing security for Telegram, so their past is their future. Incompetent people doing crap job.
Except to the protocol, which you continue to post aged posts identifying vulnerabilities that have nothing to do with the rewritten version. That is not honest presentation of the facts.
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