MOSCOW : The founder of the Telegram messaging app said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western government, which he did not name but appeared to imply was France, to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of a presidential election run-off there.Romanians were voting on Sunday in a run-off

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64363784

The founder of the Telegram messaging app said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western government, which he did not name but appeared to imply was France, to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of a presidential election run-off there.

  • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    Its encryption is weak, its servers completely opaque

    Does this mean someone actually can do something to data submitted by me to telegram servers, or my encrypted chats? If that’s so I’d like to know a concrete example or a workflow.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      20 hours ago

      My phrasing was wrong; MTProto 1.0 was weak. 2.0 is apparently better. However:

      because all communication, including plaintext and ciphertext, passes through Telegram servers, and because the server is responsible for choosing Diffie–Hellman parameters, the “server should not be considered as trusted.”

      • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        17 hours ago

        That’s different from what I asked. It’s about the other users or hackers, not services. I already live under assumption that no server of any service can be trusted.