db0 to TechnologyEnglish • 4 months agoIs Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down112cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareNoxylinkfedilinkEnglish37•4 months 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-square@rottingleaflinkEnglish4•4 months 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.
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