The Telegram guys chose to view it as a proof of inherent superiority of humble Russian programmers over NSA-backed American haters (I wish I was kidding!). Her

The Telegram guys chose to view it as a proof of inherent superiority of humble Russian programmers over NSA-backed American haters (I wish I was kidding!). Here is what Pavel Durov had to say on the matter (translated from his public post on vk.com http://vk.com/wall-52630202_7858 http://vk.com/wall-52630202_7858): > This story makes me once again admire Russian programmers. For a whole week esteemed American cryptographers on HackerNews were picking on the protocol fruitlessly - mostly demanding to replace our own solution with algorithms from NSA-backed Suite B [sic!]. An yet a Russian programmer, who calls himself "a novice", could immediately recognize the weak spot in the secret chats, in the context of an article on Habrahabr.ru. Edit: To make it clear, that is not the whole post, just the first paragraph relevant to my point