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Another libelous post by US government affiliated "cryptographer". Perhaps next we will see other familiar faces chipping in like tptacek from matasano ) Impossible to succeed at t…

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Not sure hiring a US security firm is a safer approach than crowdsourcing using the power of the global community. After all, Matasano's tptacek obviously did spend some of his tim…

By that logic, Linux, Chrome, Android are RIP at least a hundred times.

I'm excited by the insight and modesty of this guy. I will see to it that he gets a mighty prize. It's great to see how open software can leverage the power of the community to fin…

Well, when some of this "research" you promote ends up being backdoors planted by NSA ( http://reut.rs/192XWwG ), one has to be cautious. Personally, I am more comfortable with 70s…

> Your problem is not your crypto. Your problem is the attitude. OK, now I can see your point. Thank you for taking the time to reply and share advice.

With all due respect, nothing can be "obvious" unless it is proven. You cannot take something for granted just because a respected cryptographer says that. Not after we learned tha…

The wish to broaden the contest is understandable and already taken into account http://bit.ly/1htlEod What I was saying in the comment above, however, had nothing to do with the c…

After reading tptacek's comments in the latest thread about Telegram https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940665 I can only agree. He insisted Telegram team should abandon its cus…

If the advice comes from tptacek, you should probably do the opposite. He insisted this was NOT a backdoor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944118

Scientific approach is exactly what I'm calling for here. When a cryptographer resorts to arguments like "this algorithm won't work because it is not common/modern/accepted" withou…

> But a modern cryptosystem ... would use a AEAD mode, like AES-GCM But really, it is funny how rigidly you stick to NSA Suite B Cryptography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_Suite…

Alas, I am not a cryptographer and not even a member of the Telegram team. I'm just a guy who backs Telegram financially and proposed to start their contest. I described my motives…

As mentioned at http://core.telegram.org/contestfaq if more tools to interact with the traffic are needed for the contestants to crack Telegram, they will be provided in the next c…

abcd_f, I'm not part of the Telegram team, nor am I a cryptographer. However, I do support these guys, and for the last 3 days I saw the Telegram team diligently reply tech questio…

I agree with you here. That is why such contests are going to be permanent in Telegram. New contests like this will be launched in March 2014 or earlier if anyone wins earlier. Con…

http://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-how-are-telegram-users-pr...

Let me respectfully disagree with you here. Secret Chats in Telegram provide users with a way to detect a server-side MITM attack. http://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-how-are-telegr…

I'm afraid breaking into Telegram's central server (by the way, there is no such thing) will hardly enable you to decipher end-to-end encrypted secret chats. But certainly worth tr…

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