This project is an attempt to bring secret chat support to telegram desktop. It's still under heavy development but it's capable of sending / receiving encrypted text messages over secret chats. Based on the Telegram API and the MTProto secure protocol, no tdlib.
The source code is published under GPLv3 with OpenSSL exception, the license is available here.
- Accept incoming secret chats, key exchange.
- Decrypt incoming messages, encrypt outgoing messages.
- A simple UI that can handle sending & receiving text messages.
- Proper & Secure storage of chats and messages.
- Support text formatting, replies, contact mapping.
- Support read receipts, typing events.
- Initiate secret chat from client.
- Support stickers, documents, media.
- Support forwarding a message into secret chat.
- Handle delete message & chat events.
- Handle key rotation.
- Handle notifications.
- Handle periodic chat clear.
- Create encrypted group chats that works the same way with SimpleX group chat logic, by rendering seperate
- Bring encryption to standard chats to make use of telegram cloud, but don't know if this is possible without violating telegram's client api user agreement.
Development is done under windows and linux, proper binary releases are coming soon.
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OpenSSL 3.2.1 (Apache License 2.0)
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