Telegram with Matthew Green

In this podcast, the hosts discuss the recent arrest of Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, in France. He faces charges for failing to cooperate with law enforcement over crimes committed on the platform and for operating cryptography without the necessary license. The conversation explores the shortcomings of Telegram's cryptography, particularly its MTProto 2.0, which raises red flags due to unreliable security practices like server-generated Diffie-Hellman parameters and weak cipher modes. The hosts and their guest voice their concerns about Telegram's questionable security design, pointing out the misleading claims of "end-to-end encryption" and the possibility of hidden backdoors. This arrest has broader implications for other encrypted messaging services and the overall state of digital privacy and law enforcement.