This is a pretty good explanation of why the original contest was meaningless https://moxie.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/ …
I'm finding your post here problematic in much the same way as I was originally bothered by but there's more signal here (no pun intended).
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"If a 12 year old comes into your IRC channel with their homegrown encryption algorithm, no-one's going to care when you break it, because no one thought it was sound in the first place." This is not a 12 yo. It's one of the most popular chat programs in the world.
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And given that 1. people were interested in showing flaws in MTProto1, and 2. they cared enough to attempt to fix them in MTProto2, it seems like there's a reason to check MTProto2 and I bet papers would be accepted at conferences.
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(I also understood the part about there being a large gap between flaw and vuln, also see Spectre)
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Hey, so like... please don't infer too much about how I think about you precisely from this. You were asleep while I wrote it, I couldn't sound out your views, so it's a more general-audience argument :)
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Fair enough. I either don't like how you characterized my views or don't think you did such a good job of debunking them :p
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