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by magikarp 4241 days ago
The majority of Telegram's source code seems to be released as free software: https://telegram.org/apps (scroll down)
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No. Download the iOS app for instance. It is very very old to what is available in the app store. So thee is no way to really verify the client either today.
Just not the bit that matters (the servers).
Well, it is a client-side encryption app. If the encryption, public key authentication, etc. is being done well on the client, then the server's only purpose should be routing garbled ciphertext between users and managing things like login, etc.