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Re:Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign... by croes on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:00AM (#40342302)
Does Telegram still use their own crypto algorithm?

If so, up-to-date source code us pretty useless.

How many people check their app's source code?

With third party clients it's pretty easy to get malicious ones

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Re:Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign... by upofadown on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:40AM (#40342666)
It's more the case that Signal uses their own crypto algorithms. Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman and Double Ratchet for example. Telegram uses extremely well known and boring algorithms. Messaging isn't really all that complicated, you shouldn't need anything exciting.
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Re:Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign... by croes on Monday May 13, 2024 @11:13AM (#40344261)
But Telegram uses it's own protocol MTProto which isn't extremely well know and tested.
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Re:Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign... by tptacek on Thursday May 16, 2024 @12:31PM (#40380282)
Wildly false.
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