funniest shit I've seen on the topic of doing your own crypto Reply1 >The problem with Telegram and why it should be avoided is they tried to roll their own c

funniest shit I've seen on the topic of doing your own crypto Reply1 >The problem with Telegram and why it should be avoided is they tried to roll their own crypto called MTProto. >That's is simply what you don't ever do. Encryption is done. There are many algorithms that are being tested and researched by experts, those are the algorithms to use. There is simply no need to roll your own. Reply2 >The lead Telegram dev is a 3x International Math Olympiad gold medalist, won another gold in the informatiks olympiad, went on to earn two Ph.D.'s in algebraic geometry, all while working full-time as a programmer? >Him rolling his own encryption algorithm is not the same as your copy-paste StackOverflow code monkey who scraped by with C's at his community college rearranging the alphabet letters in a caesar cipher.