ICO is canceled? In Telegram service, Passport found a critical vulnerability

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Last week, the Telegram messenger has presented the Passport service to store users ' personal data. One of them including includes the passports and other documents, which may require banks and other institutions. The company promised that the information will be securely encrypted.

After a few days, the researchers from the Security company Virgil found out that the service is vulnerable to so called brute force attacks (brute force). About it writes .

How safe Passport from Telegram

On this Virgil Security, the vulnerability lies in the technology of storing passwords. Telegram uses a hashing algorithm to SHA-512, which is not designed to hash passwords. This error makes passwords are insufficiently protected, even if they are "salted" — that is, have a secret numeric sequence at the end of a set of numbers and letters.

The security of the data you upload to the cloud, Telegram, greatly depends on the degree of security of your password because of brute force attack is very simple to implement this hashing algorithm. And the lack of a digital signature allows you to change your data without your participation.

This means that the new service from Pavel Durov is not secure enough — users need to think before upload their own personal data. At least, until such time as the Telegram does not provide official comments or does not correct the problem.

Managed to subscribe to the service? Share your experiences and thoughts .

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