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by zokier 2704 days ago
Cryptography doesn't quite work that way. Just because recovering cleartext is not feasible in some specific case does not make a cryptosystem secure in general.
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In fact, that's basically what Telegram did with their impossible "crypto contests": provide a specific attack scenario, promise lots of money to break that (impossible) scenario, and then claim that it is secure against all possible attacks.
That seems interesting. Do you have any links explaining the situation?