▲ 188 ▼ FBI Warns Americans to Start Using Encrypted Messaging Apps (gizmodo.com) submitted 2 years ago by kid@sh.itjust.works [M] to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works 54 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) I dont know much about it, but Wikipedia says that MTProto is specifically for "secret chats": For encrypted chats (branded as Secret Chats), Telegram uses a custom-built symmetric encryption scheme called MTProto. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Architecture Maybe Wikipedia is misleading here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Opisek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* You're right, it is misleading. There are different "flavours" of MTProto. See here: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto This page deals with the basic layer of MTProto encryption used for Cloud chats (server-client encryption). See also: Secret chats, end-to-end-encryption End-to-end encrypted Voice Calls (The major difference is simply whether the server and client share a key or two clients) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* You're right, it is misleading. There are different "flavours" of MTProto. See here: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto This page deals with the basic layer of MTProto encryption used for Cloud chats (server-client encryption). See also: Secret chats, end-to-end-encryption End-to-end encrypted Voice Calls (The major difference is simply whether the server and client share a key or two clients) permalink fedilink source parent