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A comment on A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers (2013).

Re:A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers (2013) by krick on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:05PM (#13045850)
So, did something change over the last 3 years? Is it still unknown if Telegram protocol is ok?
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Re:A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers (2013) by jszymborski on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:12PM (#13045886)
I think the encryption has been known to be bunk for quite some time now [1]

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf [2] http://www.alexrad.me/discourse/a-264-attack-on-telegram-and... [3] https://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-ba...

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Re:A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers (2013) by GranPC on Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:46PM (#13047242)
Telegram set up a second crypto contest in which active attacks were allowed. https://telegram.org/blog/cryptocontest
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