> the fact that you chat history exists in plain text on Telegram servers. Source? https://telegram.org/blog/sessions-and-2-step-verification https://telegram.

> the fact that you chat history exists in plain text on Telegram servers. Source? https://telegram.org/blog/sessions-and-2-step-verification https://telegram.org/blog/sessions-and-2-step-verification says: "It allows you to set up a password that will be required every time you log into your account from a new device – in addition to the code you get in the SMS. Be careful though: if you forget this password, you won't be able to access your messages from other devices." This sounds to me that the chat history is encrypted with the password which doesn't leave my devices and therefore I'm not able to recover the history if I lose it. Since all clients are open-source, it should be possible to verify this. edit: Okay the option for a recovery email could mean that they still have the password (or a key derived of it) on their servers - so basically plain-text.