• refalo@programming.dev
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      30 days ago

      Basically the only thing actually encrypted in matrix e2e are the message contents itself. All other possible types of associated metadata, aren’t.

      • explorator_1317@mander.xyz
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        11 days ago

        Is there a given reason for this? Is it something they’re working on changing? I know very little about cybersecurity, but that sounds like a suboptimal situation.

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          11 days ago
          • There are efforts to encrypt more information and metadata, and to reduce the extent metadata can be correlated
          • The primary reason that things aren’t encrypted is to allow the server to perform necessary parts of the protocol, like deciding who is in a room, what the title of the room is and to whom should messages be delivered.