> As I understand it, if we had true end-to-end encryption, I would have to make sure I kept a set of keys, copied them between every computer and phone I used for chatting, and if I lost those keys I'd lose all my messages?
Unless you made an unencrypted backup, then yes, that's true and that is the reason why Telegram decided against E2EE by default. According to them their users prefer easy cloud access to their messages over security.
> According to them their users prefer easy cloud access to their messages over security.
And likewise with e-mail, PGP et al. break some features that rely on your mail server having access to the full message contents, like content-based message filtering (spam or otherwise) and server-side search.
Unless you made an unencrypted backup, then yes, that's true and that is the reason why Telegram decided against E2EE by default. According to them their users prefer easy cloud access to their messages over security.