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Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging
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Telegram's secret chat's encryption algorithm is made by Telegram themselves, which is already a red flag. You generally don't want to roll out your own encryption algorithm if you aren't cryptographers, which Telegram people aren't. Their MTProto is also not proven, so you'd rather not want to use it.
Here's a blog entry about their MTProto: https://web.archive.org/web/20180420061726/http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths/