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"Russia banned Telegram on its territory in April because we refused to provide decryption keys for all our users’ communications to Russia’s security agencies"
by amatecha 8y ago
"Russia banned Telegram on its territory in April because we refused to provide decryption keys for all our users’ communications to Russia’s security agencies"
Why does Telegram have decryption keys for all their users' communications (or do they)?
- readams 8y agoFor private chats Telegram uses end-to-end encryption and they cannot read the chats. Of course, they control the clients though, so they could update their clients to also send the chats to Russian intelligence and it would be hard for anyone to notice.
- amatecha 8y agoYeah, I thought it's supposed to be e2e-encrypted, so I was confused by this statement. I guess it make sense if he means they refused to add a backdoor like you say.
- verroq 8y agoTelegram isn't E2E encrypted by default. You need to choose an "encrypted" chat. They have been criticised over this for many years now.
- readams 8y agoYes I would think intelligence agencies should prefer Telegram over other encrypted chat providers since there's at least this possibility of leaking.
- csomar 8y agoMaybe this will have the unintended consequence of moving users to a more secure and censorship-resistant alternative.
- coolspot 8y agoAlso desktop telegram client doesn't have e2e, only mobile one.
- codedokode 8y agoThe communication between client and server is encrypted and probably authorities would like to get the keys for it. By default Telegram doesn't use end-to-end encryption, and the messages are received in cleartext on the server.