[guyht]

Whats to stop Telegram tampering with the messages and just displaying random bytes in the 'output'? This would make it impossible to crack. You cant test the security of a system without 1 - full access to the system or 2 - complete trust in the people controlling the system (which we dont have)

[gregschlom]

They said if no one wins the contest they would publish the keys allowing anyone to decrypt the data, proving it was not garbage.

[guyht]

Ah, I missed this part. Thanks