[liberationtech] About Telegram

[Steve Weis]

As an epilogue, the Telegram client misused a non-secure random number
generator mrand48 for the keys used in their contest. A student, Thijs
Alkemade, was able to recover their keys and decrypt the contest
message transcripts:
https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2014/04/02/breaking-half-of-the-telegram-contest/

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Moxie's point was that a cryptosystem can be obviously broken in multiple different ways and its creator might still not lose such a contest (though Telegram did).
>
> The Telegram "contest" was much more a PR stunt then a serious attempt at a sort of "bug bounty" for the system's design and implementation
>