$200,000 to the first person to break Telegram

Telegram backer, Pavel Durov, will give $200,000 in BTC to the first person to break the Telegram encrypted protocol. Starting today, each day Paul (+79112317383) will be sending a message containing a secret email address to Nick (+79218944725). In order to prove that Telegram crypto was indeed deciphered and claim your prize, send an email to the secret email address from Paul’s message.

Your email must contain: - The entire text of the message that contained the secret email. - Your Bitcoin address to receive the $200,000 in BTC. - A detailed explanation of the attack.

Encrypted Telegram traffic from and to Paul’s account is publicly available for download from this page. You can send Telegram messages to Paul and view his traffic in real time.

To prove that the competition was fair, we will publish the participating keys necessary to decrypt the traffic as soon as a winner is announced. In case there is no winner by March 1, 2014, encryption keys will be published at that date.

$200,000 to the first person to break Telegram
telegram.org

Of all the software branches out there in the world, crypto's are by far the coolest and scariest in my opinion. They wield obscure knowledge, have long beards, a white van full of tech, communicate in some obscure protocol with each other - oh man. :)

I'm really excited to see if this is cracked!

Travel to russia, get big wrench and hit Durov with it until he gives up his password. Win 200k.

In all seriousness, im interested to see if anyone can crack this.

He is in US now.

Some super computer says cool.