On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:35 AM, sam de silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> But this list has the experts. What's the recommendation? Was there any > consensus about Telegram. > They ignored the last 20 or so years of research into cryptography and created a cipher far inferior to modern day AEAD-style ciphers which are IND-CCA2 secure by design. The cryptographic community called them out on it. Rather than admitting their mistake, Telegram doubled down on their bad crypto, and began making claims that it's the cryptographic community, not themselves, who don't know what they're talking about. Then they published that silly contest which Moxie made a brilliant mockery of. This is willful ignorance at best. At worst they're liars. -- Tony Arcieri
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