{"id":1051,"date":"2022-05-13T18:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/secret-chats\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T18:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:56:46","slug":"secret-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/secret-chats\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Chats."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SecretChats107.jpg\"><htmlvideo style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SecretChats107.mp4\"><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1051-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" loop=\"1\" autoplay=\"1\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SecretChats107.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SecretChats107.mp4\">https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SecretChats107.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><b>Secret Chats.<\/b> Create additional one-on-one chats with your contacts that use <b>end-to-end encryption<\/b> and are not stored in or synced with the cloud \u2013&nbsp;only <b>locally<\/b> on the two participating devices.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Chats are <b>device<\/b> and <b>session-specific<\/b>, meaning they don\u2019t appear on a user\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/multi-device-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other devices<\/a>, and will be <b>cancelled<\/b> if one of the participants logs out.<\/p>\n<p>These chats prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/flexible-forwarding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forwarding messages<\/a> and have extra privacy features \u2013&nbsp;like a <b>self-destruct timer<\/b> that erases messages after they are read, as well as screenshot alerts on iOS and <b>screenshot blocking<\/b> on Android. You can identify Secret Chats from the <i><b>\ud83d\udd12<\/b><\/i> icon in the header and on the chat list. <\/p>\n<p>End-to-end encryption is provided by Telegram\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/core.telegram.org\/api\/end-to-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MTProto 2.0 protocol<\/a>, which has been <b>independently verified<\/b> by thousands of researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Chats. Create additional one-on-one chats with your contacts that use end-to-end encryption and are not stored in or synced with the cloud \u2013&nbsp;only locally on the two participating devices. Secret Chats are device and session-specific, meaning they don\u2019t appear on a user\u2019s other devices, and will be cancelled if one of the participants logs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telegram.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}