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When you say Telegram servers store plaintext "by default", does that imply this is not also true of their "Secret Chat" feature? That mode appears to behave as
by redler 11y ago
When you say Telegram servers store plaintext "by default", does that imply this is not also true of their "Secret Chat" feature? That mode appears to behave as if it's exchanging keys and doing end-to-end encryption... (I am aware of the Telegram flaws you and others have pointed out).
- pfg 11y ago"Secret Chat" uses Telegram's (flawed) E2E protocol, so the server would only see ciphertext. A "normal" chat is stored in plaintext. This is also why normal chats work in multi-device environments, but secret chats don't. Unlike iMessage (and I assume Signal - haven't looked at the actual protocol), they don't do anything fancy like making the sender encrypt messages with multiple public keys (one for each device the recipient owns).
- nahumba 11y agoIf you know something that telegram doesn`t know, maybe you should contact them, and ask your bitcoins worth of 200,000$ https://telegram.org/crypto_contest https://telegram.org/crypto_contest. Easier to "talk".
- lox 11y agohttps://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/1215.html#contests https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/1998/1215.html... http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/ http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/