db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIs Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1265cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1265external-linkIs Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square115fedilinkcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.ml
minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·1 year 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-squaremrvictory1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoThat’s a step backwards from Whatsapp lol
minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoIt’s still shit tho. Signal is better.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year 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-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agowow I haven’t used Pidgin in like a decade
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.
That’s a step backwards from Whatsapp lol
It’s still shit tho. Signal is better.
As is Sessions
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