Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa...
by grishka on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:02PM
(#28765582)
Any sources about any real vulnerabilities in MTProto?
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Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa...
by prirai on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:45PM
(#28766054)
Mtproto did have. Mtproto 2.0 hasnhasn't seen such vulnerability. Reporters are still on the older method as that's what creates an effective login.
Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa...
by grishka on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:58AM
(#28771560)
One thing I know is that it was possible in mtproto 1.0 to append something to a packet and have a client still accept it. This didn't allow anyone to modify the contents of the packet or see its plaintext. This was possible because the plaintext hash (the one in header, used to verify packet integrity after decryption) didn't include the padding. In mtproto 2.0, the hash is sha256 instead of sha1, and it does include the padding.