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Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot (rys.io)

submitted 1 day ago by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] needanke@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

States the information is in cleartext but then explains how everything is encrypted (in transit).

That's not how I understood it. The message context is allways encrypted in transit (using a novel encryption scheme). The auth_key_id however is not encrypted. And that can be used to track users as it is s(semi-)static.