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Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I'm also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

hello beautiful people of lemmy I'm excited to make my first comment in here

so I wanted to ask: considering that WhatsApp is a big threat to privacy and even worse because of google and iOS backups, how big of an improvement would it be not using it and using the secret chat option in telegram instead? That would solve the issue wouldn't it? As far as I know the concern is with normal non encrypted conversations and the groups channels and all those.

I would love to use signal with everyone but where I live it seems that there is 0 worries about the topic so I only use it with my more "international" people. The most I can get is probably to use telegram E2EE.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Hello and welcome to the Fediverse.

Telegram's secret chat's encryption algorithm is made by Telegram themselves, which is already a red flag. You generally don't want to roll out your own encryption algorithm if you aren't cryptographers, which Telegram people aren't. Their MTProto is also not proven, so you'd rather not want to use it.

Here's a blog entry about their MTProto: https://web.archive.org/web/20180420061726/http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths/