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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I read something yesterday about the Russian military uses Telegram almost exclusively, and Russia says the French arrested him to get the decryption keys.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What decryption keys even, group chats cannot be encrypted and private chats are unencrypted by default and even encrypted chats shouldn't have the encryption key stored on any servers unless there is a backdoor.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Telegram encryption is not E2EE

[–] themarty27@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Telegram does have E2EE chats (called Secret Chats), though they are only one-on-one, not enabled by default and their encryption is dubious.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh you mean server-side encryption? I'm fairly certain that Telegram is already handing out these keys anyway, since every country has laws regarding that. Server-side encryption is worth jack shit

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, well the rumor is that the French want them.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's not even encrypted except for encryption at rest. What are you talking about?