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isn’t telegram the one that uses a wonky/sus custom encryption algorithm? https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/ https://words.filippo.io/dispatche
by pmarreck 2y ago
isn’t telegram the one that uses a wonky/sus custom encryption algorithm?
https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/ https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/
- huhtenberg 2y agoThey rectified that around the time it surfaced. If you follow the discourse, the crypto quality is no longer brought up in factual Telegram-to-Signal comparisons, except as low-effort swipes at Telegram's general credibility.
- r721 2y agoThis post was on front page recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315274
- vetinari 2y agoWell, if you think that AES-256 that MTProto uses[1] is some wonky algorithm... [1] https://core.telegram.org/mtproto https://core.telegram.org/mtproto
- rakoo 2y agoGoing from "AES is safe" to "Any protocol that uses AES is safe" is the kind of leap that will ban you from any cryptography work
- vetinari 2y agoGP was talking encryption, not protocol. Randomly changing topics will get you banned from any crypto work too.
- rakoo 2y agoBecause saying "AES" is enough to talk about encryption ? Nothing else is involved ? Because if we're going in this direction everyone should just use XORs for encrypting and everything would be fine, and the rest would be implementation details.