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A comment on Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and native clients?.

Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and nati... by ryck on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:08AM (#11636749)
What's wrong with Telegram?
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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and nati... by mellamoyo on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:24AM (#11636893)
No private chats for Windows/Linux.
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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and nati... by skrowl on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:08PM (#11637297)
I'd also recommend Telegram.

Whether or not secret (end-to-end encrypted) chats are implemented is up to the client's author.

Not having secret chats in Telegram Desktop was a decision of the author - https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/5

They work in cutegram (qt based client. OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, Arch AUR, etc) - http://aseman.co/en/products/cutegram/

They work in the pidgin plugin (which works on all of the platforms supported by Pidgin) - https://github.com/majn/telegram-purple#readme

They also work in telegram CLI (which many bots are based on) - https://github.com/vysheng/tg

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