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Telegram had bounties for years, and ran specific challenges and no one ever cracked it to collect the bounty
by EGreg 4y ago
Telegram had bounties for years, and ran specific challenges and no one ever cracked it to collect the bounty
- aliqot 4y agoYou say bounty as if it is just one... No, no, my friend. That is the public bounty. What the acronyms and scofflaws are paying is a completely different story.
- EGreg 4y agowat Look here is the most criticism that was given https://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-cryptanalysis-contest https://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypt...
- lloeki 4y agoGiven the date and the reference to SHA1, it's about MTProto 1. MTProto 2 has been vastly improved in all the criticised areas.
- palata 4y agoExcept that if you are not using secret chats (most people are not), then Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted, is it? Meaning that the server can read the messages.
- EGreg 4y agoYes except for that. Well most people don’t use Telegram. So maybe their stuff isnt encrypted either. So what? If you want to use it it’s available.
- orangepurple 4y agoIf you want e2ee you can have e2ee by selecting it and using it. Simple enough.
- palata 4y agoLet's be honest: if you want privacy, you use Signal. If you want the nice UX (at the cost of lower privacy guarantees), you use Telegram. The problem is only when people fail to understand that the only private chats in Telegram are the ones that remove all the UX benefits, and instead believe that their "normal chats" and groups are private.
- YeBanKo 4y agoNo, it is not simple at all. In fact it is not obvious and I had many issues trying to use e2ee messages on Telegram: messages fail to deliver, the same chat appears multiple times, no group secured messages.