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The bounty isn't as much of an assurance as they would have you believe. Good publicity nonetheless. Relevant article from Moxie Marlinespike: https://archive.

The bounty isn't as much of an assurance as they would have you believe. Good publicity nonetheless. Relevant article from Moxie Marlinespike: https://archive.vn/SIl9M https://archive.vn/SIl9M A theorized valid attack that was deemed invalid by the fine print in their bounty program: https://web.archive.org/web/20181118154823/https://www.alexrad.me/discourse/a-264-attack-on-telegram-and-why-a-super-villain-doesnt-need-it-to-read-your-telegram-chats.html https://web.archive.org/web/20181118154823/https://www.alexr... These are criticisms of MTproto 1, there is barely any literature about the new version.

Anon1096 6y ago
I think this exact comment sequence with these exact links has been played out on every Hacker News thread about Telegram since its inception.
ffpip 6y ago
Yeah I know it's just publicity. Just like 'Apple will pay 1 million dollars for iphone hack' articles. But Moxie (or any other cryptographer) could use the money for Signal's development. It's a large amount.
- bjoli 6y ago
  Moxie clearly states that: the competition is framed in such a way that it would be bordering impossible to break it even uf it had been using primitives known to be broken.