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For Telegram haters, this means Telegram actually cares about your privacy comparing to WhatsApp, Messenger and any other IM working in Russia without problems.

• r3bl 9y ago
  Ummm... there is no encryption key for WhatsApp and Messenger to hand over. That's what end-to-end encryption means. Now WhatsApp could theoretically push a malicious update, but there is no way Signal could even theoretically hand over the encryption keys, because the entire freaking point of their product is for them not to have a copy of those keys. Since Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted (outside "secret chats"), they do have a private key that decrypts all the messages, since they only encrypt in transit. Therefore, there is a private key to hand over to the government.
  • oarsinsync 9y ago
    > Since Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted they do have a private key that decrypts all the messages, since they only encrypt in transit E2E encryption refers to transit encryption. The encryption is between two end devices, rather than decrypted (and re-encrypted) between clients and servers. It has no bearing on data stored at rest on the end device, and I have no idea what either WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram does to the data at rest.