Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

• pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s incorrect, their client is opensource, you can check their e2ee yourself.

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The encryption algorithm may be open source, but they rolled it themselves. It is proprietary encryption.

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    • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Again, it’s not, go to their github, check the code of the client, compile it yourself, and make a reproducible build to check that the client they ship to your phone is the same. You are talking nonsense.

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      • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re not getting what I’m saying, because you don’t understand what “proprietary” means in this context.

        Proprietary encryption ≠ Proprietary code.

        You can roll your own shitty novel encryption algorithm and license it under GPL if you want, it’s still proprietary encryption in that Signal has its own unvetted encryption algorithm instead of using a trusted existing algorithm.

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      • skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Todd is a known bullshitter

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