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A comment on Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?.

Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by TXCSwe on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:49AM (#16745830)
I run Telegram on my desktop? Also i use WhatsApp on my iPhone.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by uph on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:13PM (#16746148)
Telegram doesn't use end-to-end encryption by default. It's marketed as a secure messenger, but it's comparable to Facebook Messenger or Google Allo.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by xstartup on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:31PM (#16748277)
As I've mentioned in the post above, telegram simply does not have "secret chats" available on Desktop.

So, if you use Secret chat on mobile and go to desktop, you'll not see it!

Switching back and forth between secret and not secret is troublesome especially when the other side doesn't know if you are on desktop or mobile to check availability for secret chat.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by michel-slm on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:10PM (#16748617)
Which desktop client did you try? The official Mac client, at least, has secret chat just like the mobile clients (I just used it yesterday)

Note that Telegram secret chats are end to end encrypted (default chats are not) but you're still dealing with the Telegram server (not peer to peer)

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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by xstartup on Sunday April 08, 2018 @02:49AM (#16784968)
I tried arch linux one.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by narg on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:56AM (#16753590)
I have just installed the Mac client and it allows to create new secret chat but it does not show the secret chats created before on your phone. At least that is what happened to me.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by ergl on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:21PM (#16748703)
AFAIK Telegram for OSX does support secret chats: https://macos.telegram.org/ I don't know about the other platforms
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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by skinnymuch on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:07PM (#16749248)
Which platform? I only use Mac for a GUI OS and that has secret chats for Telegram.
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