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No, you can E2EE on all clients. But Secret Chats are always a 1:1 session between devices. You can't start a Secret Chat on one device and continue on another.
by 0x000000001 5y ago
No, you can E2EE on all clients. But Secret Chats are always a 1:1 session between devices. You can't start a Secret Chat on one device and continue on another.
This might seem like an inconvenience but it avoids the pitfall leading to
the recent Matrix exploits...
- Arathorn 5y agoNot sure that the solution to the risk of a bug in encrypted group chats is to mandate that group chats are unencrypted… Plus the Matrix bug was effectively a theoretical vulnerability rather than something actually being exploited.
- 0x000000001 5y agoTelegram could support group chats that are encrypted, only that you can only be in that group chat from one device. I would greatly prefer that solution. Wouldn't you?
- johnisgood 5y agohttps://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple#2-why-are-there-no-secret-chats-on-desktop-apps https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple#2-why-are-there... It literally is "Why are there no Secret Chats on desktop apps?". They seem to provide a couple of reasons, so it seems like it is not going to be a thing?