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Re:After Delhi High Court ruling, Telegram discloses persona... by upofadown on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:29PM (#33792058)
Each participant needs to verify each and every other participant. So for 2 participants that's 2 verifications. For 3 participants that is 9 verifications. For 4 it's 16. The square of the number of participants. With just 30 participants that works out to 900 verifications ... and who actually knows 30 people on the internet? Even if you could do the verification in a technical sense it wouldn't mean anything.

If you get a whole bunch of people together in real life for a meeting then chances are one or more of them is going to leak what happened. The problem is to a great extent inherent.

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Re:After Delhi High Court ruling, Telegram discloses persona... by nix23 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @05:04PM (#33794023)
Man you never hear of a trust-chain? How do you think end to end encryption works otherwise?

And no you don't need to verify each other keys, since every one has his public key you obliviously trust, you just try to make an excuse for not knowing how e2e works.

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