Re:$200,000 to the first person to break Telegram
by nwh on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @07:26PM
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The interesting thing with the graphic patterns is that they're lossy. If you assume that a person will just describe the pattern or show a picture of them to one another, it becomes fairly easy to forge them.
Blue in the top and bottom, white line through the middle. So little information that anybody could simply brute force the keys until they found one that matched the description well enough.
I'd happily write a little attack for that, but it's clearly not "breaking" the system enough for the bounty.
http://telegram.org/img/key_image.jpg
Blue in the top and bottom, white line through the middle. So little information that anybody could simply brute force the keys until they found one that matched the description well enough.
I'd happily write a little attack for that, but it's clearly not "breaking" the system enough for the bounty.