People who think telegram is doing dubious things with encryption and security: are there any good write-ups of the critiques that respond to https://core.telegram.org/techfaq ?
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If cryptographers spent time doing in depth analysis of every crank encryption app out there, they'd never have time to get anything done. It's valid to dissmiss them for the same reason physics professors don't give in-depth refutals for perpetual motion machines.
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Ok, so this is the stuff I'm talking about. There are a small handful of popular chat apps in the world, and Telegram's encryption is not analogous to a perpetual motion machine. It's more like a nuclear reactor that works but some experts worry doesn't follow best practices.
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Yes, it would be really bad if people messed it up, but calling it a "crank encryption algorithm" is simply wrong and devalues the argument people are making. Do experts think that https://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-i-39m-a-security-expert-and-i-think-your-protocol-is-not-secur … this contest is a fraud? $300k is pretty good...
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I haven't seen the 2nd round before, but yes, experts *absolutely* believed the contest was a fraud. It's a setup that sounds good to non cryptographers but is meaningless in actuality.
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Is there a post somewhere where an expert offers suggestions to change the contest to be more acceptable?
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This is a pretty good explanation of why the original contest was meaningless https://moxie.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/ …
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It sounds like they updated the challenge in response to criticism. Have people described their concerns with the new contest?
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