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| | Some users asked me about a Gizmodo article that claims everybody should stop using Telegram because we don't encrypt chats. Unfortunately, this article is based on incorrect and misleading statements. 1. Always encrypted The author confuses encryption and end-to-end encryption and claims that some data on Telegram is sent and stored unencrypted. This is not true. All data is encrypted. Secret Chats use end-to-end encryption, Cloud Chats use server-client encryption in transit and are of course encrypted in...
| | blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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| | I'm supposed to be finishing a wonky series on proof systems (here and here) and I promise I will do that this week. In the midst of this I've been a bit distracted by world events. Last week the Washington Post published a bombshell story announcing that the U.K. had filed "technical capability notices" demanding...
| | pxlnv.com
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| | Since 2022, the European Parliament has been trying to pass legislation requiring digital service providers to scan for and report CSAM as it passes through their services. Giacomo Zandonini, Apostolis Fotiadis, and Lud?k Stavinoha, Balkan Insight, with a good summary in September: Welcomed by some child welfare organisations, the regulation has nevertheless been met with [...]
| | www.eff.org
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| We thought we won the Crypto Wars, the fight to make strong encryption accessible to all, in the 1990s.[fn]In the 1990s EFF led the fight to protect users' ability to have strong, uncompromised encryption. In collaboration with leading academics, industry trade associations, and politicians from...