Telegram Messenger officially notified Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications on impossibility to execute the requirement to transfer keys of decoding to Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation till April 4. The reason advised vyznat at the American cryptographers pensioners.
As appears from the answer of Telegram published on April 2 by the head of Agora human rights organization by Chikov Pawel, users of a messenger use cloudy and confidential chats. Cloudy correspondence is never stored in one place and distributed between various subsystems.
Sobshcheniya's transmitted through confidential chats, in general never remain on Telegram servers. Creation of such chats begins with generation of an authorization key.
"Thus use asymmetric enciphering and algorithm of Diffi-Martin Khellman, from two created parts of a key one never leaves the user device and is not transferred on communication channels", – specifies Telegram.
the Server infrastructure of a messenger has the distributed architecture for safety, includes subsystems in the territory of the different states, these subsystems are controlled by various legal entities. In other words, the array of data is scattered worldwide and never connects in a uniform point.
"The administrator of service under no circumstances has no access to information which is giving the chance of decoding of electronic messages", – is spoken in Telegram statement.
Fulfillment of duties established by the federal law "About information", is technically impossible, representatives of "Agora" specify. 73-year-old Uitfild Diffi and 72-year-old Martin Khellman reckon as founders Cryptography with open keys. Live in New York. Telegram – free cross-platform Internet service of an exchange by text messages, images, video fragments and any files.
Blocking of a messenger Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications announcedon March 20, having officially demanded to transfer keys of enciphering of Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation till April 4. Non-execution by company Telegram Messenger Limited of standards of the Russian legislation is approved by the decision of the world judge Meschansky district Moscow in October, 2017, it came into force on December 12. By consideration of appeal complaints on the decision of the world judge it became known that Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in a pre-judicial order demanded in the summer from Telegram the classified information, thus asked to send it to the general electronic box to fsb@fsb .ru.
Attack of Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation on Telegram beganafter Petersburg made in the subway Saint Petersburg act of terrorism . Representatives of "Agora" consider explosion by a far-fetched occasion as persons involved in criminal case did not use a messenger.