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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean specifically by encryption key handling? You log in, confirm it with one other device, done. Don't see where I ever used technical knowledge?

I agree there are weird glitches und sometimes bugs, but they mostly get fixed. Mostly :d

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it's nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn't), then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything, doesn't really tell you what to do about it, and you have to reconfirm with a 2ne device all over again (which, again, had better be nearby).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it’s nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn’t),

Your devices don't have to be nearby to verify them. You can enter a key backup passphrase instead.

then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything,

That's not normal. Looks like you ran into a bug. Did you report it, so it can be tracked and fixed?

I gather from their weekly reports that they've been fixing encryption bugs lately, and that the clients now in testing (the Element X code base) seem to have them solved. You might want to try those, or one of the third-party clients.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The new Rust library is really solid. Once things start moving to that instead of rolling their own, it will get a lot more smooth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you tell me more about this? I’m running a synapse server at the moment, but if there’s about to be a smoother Rust option, I’m interested!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s a client library only. Keep running Synapse. :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There technically is Conduit , but it's still in beta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I do wish they just let you disable encryption for all rooms at a server level. But years ago people gave the team so much shit for not supporting encryption that they added really good encryption, but it makes things harder. Nothing is free.