db0 to [email protected]English • 8 months agoIs Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1265cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1265external-linkIs Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.comdb0 to [email protected]English • 8 months agomessage-square120fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareNoxylinkfedilinkEnglish38•8 months agoWhen you can’t use secret chat at ALL on desktop, fuck no it isn’t. Assuming end-to-end encryption is what’s meant in the question.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•8 months agoYou can with Pidgin and purple-tdlib plugin for Telegram. But then I’d ask the other person to use the same thing, and we’d both use OTR for encryption, not TG’s bogus E2EE.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•8 months agoThat’s a step backwards from Whatsapp lol
When you can’t use secret chat at ALL on desktop, fuck no it isn’t.
Assuming end-to-end encryption is what’s meant in the question.
You can with Pidgin and purple-tdlib plugin for Telegram.
But then I’d ask the other person to use the same thing, and we’d both use OTR for encryption, not TG’s bogus E2EE.
wow I haven’t used Pidgin in like a decade
That’s a step backwards from Whatsapp lol
It’s still shit tho. Signal is better.
As is Sessions