Feature #15199

Test Telegram in Tails

Added by Anonymous 2018-01-19 10:04:39 . Updated 2020-02-27 08:19:56 .

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Resolved
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Normal
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Start date:
2018-01-19
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% Done:

100%

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Description

As reported by sajolida on https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/14504#note-5
Telegram seems to run over Tor & has a Debian package.
We should try running it from Tails.

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History

#1 Updated by jvoisin 2018-01-20 12:00:16

I’m using Telegram on a daily basis with a Tor proxy, and it works great. Unfortunately, the desktop client doesn’t support end-to-end encryption, only the mobile one does.

#2 Updated by Anonymous 2018-01-22 16:59:18

  • Assignee set to jvoisin
  • QA Check set to Info Needed

jvoisin wrote:
> I’m using Telegram on a daily basis with a Tor proxy, and it works great. Unfortunately, the desktop client doesn’t support end-to-end encryption, only the mobile one does.

Thanks for reporting back! What do you mean by “the desktop client doesn’t support end-to-end-encryption”? Are you referring to this: https://core.telegram.org/tsi/e2ee-simple#2-why-are-there-no-secret-chats-on-desktop-apps ?

So what’s the use of this client then?

#3 Updated by jvoisin 2018-01-22 23:26:26

Yes, exactly.

The client is used for non-end-to-end encrypted one-to-one and group chats. Some projects are using Telegram instead of IRC because of the smooth user-experience it provides on mobile clients, and some people (like me), are using the desktop client to access them.

#4 Updated by sajolida 2018-05-10 16:28:55

https://web.telegram.org/ works from Tails. You need your phone to authenticate.

#5 Updated by sajolida 2018-06-25 16:21:08

Voice calls with Telegram work over Tor with the mobile version. I didn’t try that on the desktop version.

#6 Updated by jvoisin 2018-08-19 20:42:59

Calls on desktop client are working on Tails, but aren’t end-to-end encrypted.

#7 Updated by sajolida 2018-08-20 10:26:44

> Calls on desktop client are working on Tails, but aren’t end-to-end encrypted.

Wow! That’s cool :)

Note that is matches my experience with trying to use messaging
applications from a phone through Tor: Telegram calls work but WhatsApp
and Signal calls don’t.

#8 Updated by Anonymous 2019-03-08 14:58:57

  • Assignee deleted (jvoisin)
  • QA Check deleted (Info Needed)

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2020-02-27 08:19:56

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset commit:tails|4cf65305f909e72413f2fa0b5c42c5cdb8a6edd4.