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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by ajconway on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:13PM (#22120921)
> it falls back to MTProto over HTTP

Could you expand on their usage of TLS and HTTP? Surely they don't send anything in plain-text over HTTP?

Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by ryanlol on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:55PM (#22121341)
Looks like they don’t use TLS at all by default, just MTProto on port 443 or MTProto over HTTP. Comms to the telegram servers are always encrypted with MTProto, but tunneling MTProto over TLS would make any attacks on MTProto much harder (perhaps impossible) to execute.

I thought they used TLS wrapping in some markets for censorship resistance, but apparently that is not the case unless you set up your own proxy.