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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by mullen on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:58AM (#14637771)
Because the State actors that would be capable of making that kind of exploit would keep that to themselves.
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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by EGreg on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:02PM (#14637791)
No one else is?
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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by kardos on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:36PM (#14638702)
If someone had an exploit like that, there's money to be had by exploiting it in secret and/or selling it to people who do that. Why would they post it online for you for free?
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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by EGreg on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:36PM (#14639143)
Because they are a researcher that wants to show that rolling your own crypto is bad. In other words back up the orthodox opinion with a PROOF and not just groupthink.
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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by tptacek on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:56PM (#14639298)
This is an argument that suggests we should all keep on using SHA-1, since, after all, there's no public exploit.
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