Some things to Know about the emerging Telegram

[chitranjan]

Telegram Features

Privacy Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct.

Cloud based lets you access your messages from multiple devices.

Fast delivers messages faster than any other application.

Free Its free forever. No ads. No subscription fees.

Security the app is so secure that they claim to pay $200,000 in BTC (bit coin) to the first hack who will hack it. If you are interested in hacking it go here

you can send your usual videos and photos, but you can also send doc, zip, mp3, almost every file can be sent over it but there is a size limit of 1 GB

 

Source here

[SJBijzitter]

inb4 the nsa is 200k usd richer

[Askew]

inb4 the nsa is 200k usd richer

 

Nah they wouldn't claim it would they, they'd let them keep the money and abuse the exploit until someone else found it.

[Bob]

This is not secure, Steve Gibson gave it a break down.  This is an over view.

 

"BUT... the most bizarre home-grown security protocol I've ever seen.

○ AES-IGE: Infinite Garble Extension

○ SHA-1 (which is no longer sufficiently secure) was used in the name of

performance... thus sacrificing the security they claim to treasure.

○ Then, they use that SHA-1 to hash the plaintext for the generation of the

encryption key. WHAT??"

[mr.squishy]

 

This is not secure, Steve Gibson gave it a break down.  This is an over view.

 

"BUT... the most bizarre home-grown security protocol I've ever seen.

○ AES-IGE: Infinite Garble Extension

○ SHA-1 (which is no longer sufficiently secure) was used in the name of

performance... thus sacrificing the security they claim to treasure.

○ Then, they use that SHA-1 to hash the plaintext for the generation of the

encryption key. WHAT??"

 

If you claim it to be so inefficient at being secure, why are you not $200,000 dollars richer yet?

[Blue fellow]

If you claim it to be so inefficient at being secure, why are you not $200,000 dollars richer yet?

 

It might be a similar reason as to why we claim Justin Bieber is an awful musician, yet we don't make any platinum albums. 

[Bob]

If you claim it to be so inefficient at being secure, why are you not $200,000 dollars richer yet?

You should listen to the Security Now episode, it is talked about a lot. Go to 44:00 minutes http://twit.tv/show/security-now/444 also read this article.   http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths/

[mr.squishy]

You should listen to the Security Now episode, it is talked about a lot. Go to 44:00 minutes http://twit.tv/show/security-now/444 also read this article.   http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths/

I see......

[Inkz]

Now I just need to learn how to crack in  a small amount of time and I could be rich.