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Names and degrees may indeed not mean as much in some fields as they do in others, but this protocol is the result of thougtful and prolonged work of professionals. It took them about two years to roll out the current version of MTProto. The team behind Telegram, led by Nikolai Durov, consists of six ACM champions, half of them Ph.Ds in math. Which the Telegram people most certainly aren't. Especially if you aren't trained cryptographers.
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We all know that the first rule of Cryptography is Don't Roll Your Own Crypto. Telegram's security is built around their home spun MTProto protocol. I'd like to instead focus on whether Telegram is secure. I'd like to ignore the comparison to WhatsApp because WhatsApp does not advertise itself as a "secure" messaging option.