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[Pali Rohár]

On Friday 11 March 2016 09:44:01 Alexander Semke wrote:
> Nicolás, Valorie, thank you for your answers. 
> 
> > As far as I know there is nothing open about Slack.
> > 
> > The Telegram protocol is public, every official Telegram client is free
> > software, there are no features limited to paying users...
> > [...]
> If I understand it correctly, there is nothing open about the server 
> implemenation and infrastructure. So, I'm not sure how much the openness on 
> the client side help here.
> 
> I also found this older article 
> http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths/
> which I found quite interesting, especially the longer discussion in the 
> comments between the author of the article and some guy from Telegram.

Thats exactly what I wanted to point out. Like Schneier's Law:

"any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can't
think of how to break it."

So be careful about home-made security encryption in software like
Telegram. It does not mean that it is secure...

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Pali Rohár
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