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Element-R: DMs started from ER are not encrypted #24429

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richvdh opened this issue Feb 3, 2023 · 2 comments
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Element-R: DMs started from ER are not encrypted #24429

richvdh opened this issue Feb 3, 2023 · 2 comments
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A-Element-R Issues affecting the port of Element's crypto layer to Rust O-Frequent Affects or can be seen by most users regularly or impacts most users' first experience S-Minor Impairs non-critical functionality or suitable workarounds exist T-Defect

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richvdh commented Feb 3, 2023

DMs started from Element R are not encrypted by default:

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It's possible to go and manually enable encryption afterwards.

@richvdh richvdh added T-Defect A-Element-R Issues affecting the port of Element's crypto layer to Rust O-Frequent Affects or can be seen by most users regularly or impacts most users' first experience S-Minor Impairs non-critical functionality or suitable workarounds exist labels Feb 3, 2023
@richvdh richvdh changed the title Element-R: DMs are not encrypted Element-R: DMs started from ER are not encrypted Feb 3, 2023
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richvdh commented Mar 15, 2023

This turns out to be much harder than I expected. The reason it's not working is because we don't have the device list for the target user; so this is blocked by #24833 .

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Screen.Recording.2023-04-25.at.16.32.10.mov

Fixed by matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#10673

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