‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’

Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by xdennis on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:31AM (#34818348)

> My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software

That's the only way to make sure you're using software you trust, but rolling your own crypto implementations is often not so secure (because of the many pitfalls).

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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by tpetry on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:22AM (#34818965)

You don't have to roll your own crypto. You can e.g. just use libsodium which is designed to be easy-to-use and not possible to use incorrectly.

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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by atq2119 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:44AM (#34820122)

Using libsodium is good advice, but all crypto libraries can be used incorrectly.

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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by rich_sasha on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:28PM (#34826556)

I'd have no idea where to start securing an app against side channel hacks.

Is the memory encrypted? Should it be? Can other apps access it?

E2E might be working fine, its the ends I'd be concerned about.

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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by tough on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:29AM (#34819058)

Narcs did this and alas the FBI ended up turning the guy who wrote their software to turn on them all.. so hard for a criminal mastermind to also be a good programmer I think

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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by tivi on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:11AM (#34819679)

you could run your own xmpp or matrix instances.

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