Comment by dijit
1 day ago
The first version of MTProto was found to have weaknesses.
The reason they rolled their own was because it came out before the Double-Ratchet/Axolotl protocol and OtR (which double-ratchet is essentially based on) was extremely inconvenient to use properly and had its own weaknesses.
> The reason they rolled their own was because it came out before the Double-Ratchet/Axolotl protocol and OtR (which double-ratchet is essentially based on) was extremely inconvenient to use properly and had its own weaknesses.
this actually makes a lot of sense lowkey, thanks :)