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Re:WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees by jhasse on Monday January 18, 2016 @04:09PM (#10926960)
Also WhatsApp is closed-source, but Telegram's client is open-source.
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Re:WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees by ex3ndr on Monday January 18, 2016 @05:18PM (#10927428)
Telegram is actually not open, they just throw some sources to github or as zip files at their's langing page. That's why i quit Telegram and built open source "Telegram" - https://actor.im and replaced spagetti-encryption with enhanced version of Signal's one.
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Re:WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees by Johnny_Brahms on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:40AM (#10931412)
Considering it is pretty much the gold standard for crypto, how did you enhance it?
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Re:WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees by ex3ndr on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @12:48PM (#10932372)
We added one extra level based on Russian encryption. So if Curve25519 or AES encryption will be broken there are still be russian level. To break our crypto Russia and US need to cooperate that is impossible.
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Re:WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees by free2rhyme214 on Monday January 18, 2016 @04:39PM (#10927180)
Not everything with Telegram is open source like Signal. I still use Telegram because it's designed better and updated much more frequently.
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Re:WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees by jhasse on Monday January 18, 2016 @05:09PM (#10927376)
I'm using both, too. :) But unfortunately I don't use Chrome, so I can't use Signal on my PC yet.
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Re:WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees by Johnny_Brahms on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:42AM (#10931420)
There are some FF-related pull requests on GitHub, but it seems that guy hasn't signed the contributor agreement. Maybe we'll get an FF-version soon.
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Re:WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees by jhasse on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:27PM (#10940187)
Why is a contributor agreement needed? Can you post the link to the PR?
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