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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by lxgr on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:08AM (#34820502)
Textbook one-time pads are trivially malleable. Sometimes non-malleability matters just as much or more than privacy.

("This is POTUS, do$ÿ} launch the nukes!!!")

Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by brobdingnagians on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:09PM (#34821554)
If you are a developer working for the government and in charge of this, please do not make this mistake. If you are the President of the United States and need to send a message like this, please make it completely unambiguous. Maybe repeat it several times and provide a justification.
Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by lxgr on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:25PM (#34821856)
I'm fairly confident that the US government, given that it runs the NSA, has access to a textbook or two on applied cryptography and cryptanalysis and does not need to source input on their cryptographic designs from HN :)