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minus-squareJustin@lemmy.jlh.namelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoI dont know much about it, but Wikipedia says that MTProto is specifically for “secret chats”: For encrypted chats (branded as Secret Chats), Telegram uses a custom-built symmetric encryption scheme called MTProto. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Architecture Maybe Wikipedia is misleading here
minus-squareOpisek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-217 days agoYou’re right, it is misleading. There are different “flavours” of MTProto. See here: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto This page deals with the basic layer of MTProto encryption used for Cloud chats (server-client encryption). See also: Secret chats, end-to-end-encryption End-to-end encrypted Voice Calls (The major difference is simply whether the server and client share a key or two clients)
I dont know much about it, but Wikipedia says that MTProto is specifically for “secret chats”:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Architecture
Maybe Wikipedia is misleading here
You’re right, it is misleading. There are different “flavours” of MTProto. See here:
https://core.telegram.org/mtproto
(The major difference is simply whether the server and client share a key or two clients)