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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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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Why? If someone tries to straight up *CON* people, why is that not enough to run screaming in the opposite direction? Life's too short to do free work, and being subjected to a torrent of abuse and attacks on your reputation by the CEO is the only reward for analysing telegram
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This article claims they're conning people but maybe the first contest was just naively flawed. The assumption that they're crooks is certainly driving a lot of people to make these claims with minimal details but I don't think that's correct.
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