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Re:Looking back at how Signal works by the_why_of_y on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:19AM (#23438126)
Signal's crypto is an incremental improvement of existing algorithms with good reputation, OTR and SCIMP.

Telegram's crypto is reportedly designed from scratch, with questionable choices such as SHA1 and MAC-then-encrypt.

https://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypt...

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

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Re:Looking back at how Signal works by est31 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:18AM (#23444957)
I didn't want to claim that Telegram's crypto was better or as good as Signal's. But saying that Telegram rolled their own crypto while Signal did not is misleading as both designed their own protocols.

Also, Telegram uses SHA256 now in the places relevant for security, so that point was resolved.

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