It doesn’t matter what Facebook or WhatsApp say they use, their source code is closed, you can’t prove their words, meaning they don’t have e2ee. You can with Signal, you can with Telegram.
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quaff@lemmy.ca 2 months agoYeah, the fact that FB messenger uses Signal protocol, means the encryption is better than the one used in Telegram. But the lack of on by default or the need to drill in a few options before enabling secret chats… I mean it’s even named the same thing as Telegram.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
quaff@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Telegram needs to enable e2ee by default, cause the way it is now, you may as well not have it.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MTProto 2 has not been cracked. MTProto 1 had a weakness and Telegram addressed it. That was many years ago. I’m not aware that MTProto 2 has ever been cracked in all these years. Telegram’s unwillingness to cooperate with governments is an additional security layer.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s important is that it hasn’t been confirmed good by actual normal cryptographers. It’s science, not school debates.
No person ever instructed in security would say something this childishly asinine!
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why not?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dunno. It’s just not.
Shows like “we have a reward to crack it, nobody’s done this, so we’re very cool” are not sufficient.
quaff@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I mean, I was merely referring to how FB Messenger and Telegram functions the same.
Speaking to the protocol used for encryption is a moot point… because even if MTProto 2 was better, it’s still not enabled by default.