Telegram Finally Adds End-to-End Encrypted Calls to App

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Telegram Finally Adds End-to-End Encrypted Calls to App

Secure messaging app Telegram is finally getting phone call capabilities, much like other similar tools available out there. There's one difference, though - Telegram says even its voice conversations are covered by the same end-to-end encryption protection offered to texts.

"Telegram Calls are built upon the time-tested end-to-end encryption of Telegram's Secret Chats. The key verification UI we came up with in 2013 to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks served well for Telegram (and for other apps that adopted it), but for Calls we needed something easier," the company said in the announcement.

So, what did they do? They introduced a new verification process involving emojis. To make sure calls are 100% secure, the caller and the recipient need to compare four emojis over the phone, without any lengthy codes or complicated pictures.

With this move, Telegram is just the latest messaging app to get call ca... (read more)
 
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