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Re:Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service by vbezhenar on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:12PM (#23351784)
This answer is ridiculous. They got world level mathematicians in their team, what more do you want? Who are those "cryptographers"? And why those cryptographers don't break Telegram if they think that their crypto is broken?

Again, crypto is either broken or not. Telegram crypto is not broken. It's fine. Not everyone might like it, but that does not matter. I don't know story about CIA (although I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Signal is honeypot), so can't comment about that.

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Re:Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service by jolux on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:28PM (#23356307)
Mathematicians are not cryptographers. Crypto is harder to trust when the rationale behind it hasn’t been justified. Signal’s crypto is very easy to justify. That’s about it.
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Re:Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service by fsflover on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:49PM (#23352335)
>Again, crypto is either broken or not.

Security is not a yes/no thing. It is equal to the price to break it. If the cryptography is well-tested for decades, the price is much higher. This is not true for Telegram. It does not matter how good its creators are.

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