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What's the ideal route for someone familiar with 3ds Max to learn Blender? I feel a bit stuck with my proprietary skillset.

What's the vulnerability they injected into DES?

Very secure servers are openly documented (Kerckhoff's principle). Snake oil purporting itself as secure is always very hush hush and comes with claims of security. Besides, other …

Telegram offering bells and whistles that leaks everything to the service provider is not an argument for Telegram the same way "it launches the video game" isn't an argument for v…

The bigger issue is Telegram advertises it as more private option to WhatsApp although Telegram collects more metadata, and also the message content. People think Telegram is more …

Too bad he gave the job of company cryptography team to his brother, Nikolai who's an expert in geometry, not cryptography.

Yup but the issue is Telegram already has two separate groups, normal groups (3-200 users), and supergroups (200-200,000 users). For end-to-end encrypted groups, Threema supports 2…

>Durov who supposedly lives in exile has visited Russia over 50 times Durov's exile marketing makes him look like he's Alexei Navalny. Navalny was a true dissident and critic and h…

>Ukrainian military has literally relied upon it in the past Well they realized their mistake and banned Telegram's use on state issued devices in 2024 https://www.bbc.com/news/art…

>telegram is the safest encrypted messaging app. Period, full stop. Yes, let's see * Not end-to-end encrypted by default * No end-to-end encrypted groups * No end-to-end encryption…

There's nothing slow about AES. In this context "heavily" means "we can't legally claim it's end-to-end encrypted because it's not". Also it's not even post quantum, so it's not he…

https://docs.cwtch.im/ has P2P Onion Service based messaging.

Probably not. It's been ~13 years when Snowden said what the NSA is doing is going around the encryption by hacking endpoints. Post quantum cryptography doesn't change any of that.…

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What are you hinting here? Surely you can make a positive claim with evidence to back it? A CEO of a big project like SimpleX wouldn't stoop as low as Pavel Durov?

Same guy, always pretending we've never had the same discussion over and over here, Reddit and privacyguides, for years. You're always running away. >The protocol is designed to pr…

The point is there is no public key capability in BB84 that requires pre-sharing a symmetric key. You absolutely do get forward secrecy with pre-shared keys. You just need to make …

QKD is interesting from the PoV of perfect secrecy. But AFAIK with e.g. BB84, the basis orientation communication (used to detect OTP delivery eavesdropping) is done with Wegman-Ca…

In 2006?

Plus the company likes to advertise their product as more metadata-private than Tor Onion Service based messaging apps like Cwtch. They lie by omission when they say that the servi…

Thank goodness. Finally. Yeah I'm just not comfortable with 80-bit complexity against Grover, even if it's practically infeasible.

Could we finally get SHA256 fingerprints. Or BLAKE2, or SHA3-256, or SHAKE256, or BLAKE3, or LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT SHA-1, pretty please?

Some DJs use this principle when they need a hacky stage mic. They plug their headphones to the mixer's mic input, and shout to the speaker element.

and many LEDs are weak photo-diodes, i.e. you get weak current when you shine a light to them.

The sad part is, Instagram is exceptionally damaging to kids for a disjoint set of reasons.