Re: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France

D. Ray <d@ray> wrote:

Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> wrote:
 

Telegram's point-to-point chats are not so open, and the
Russian military have no secure messenger of their own.

 
I find it hard to believe. Basic messenger is not that hard to create, and
adding encryption functionality based on, for example, PGP, is also not
that hard.

It's probably like in the US military, at least circa 2006:

"A 2006 thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School states that
 internet relay chat (IRC) is one of the most widely used chat
 protocols for military command and control (C2).  Software such as
 mIRC, a Windows-based chat client, or integrated systems in C2
 equipment are used primarily in tactical conditions though efforts
 are underway to upgrade systems to newer protocols." ...
 https://publicintelligence.net/tactical-chat/

All the US' military-specific encrypted message standards, network
infrastructure, and untold millions spent, and soldiers on the
ground just used IRC.

This US defence contractor still lists "cross protocol
communication" with IRC as one of the key features of their secure
chat system:
https://tacticalchat.com/

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