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Matrix.org Breaks Federation: Users Can't Decrypt Messages from Other Servers

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Re: Matrix.org Breaks Federation: Users Can't Decrypt Messages from Other Servers

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Post by davidt84 »

xabadut wrote: post #9
Arathorn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, congratulations on the conspiracy theory. The reason that bug has been ignored is because it (like the comment above) is completely unactionable: there are no details of which server is failing to federate, or examples of failed requests, etc. No servers have been explicitly defederated from matrix.org, and when federation breaks it is 99% because the recipient server is badly administered or overloaded and is e…

That's all I wanted to accomplish, thank you for your response.

All you wanted to accomplish was to rant about conspiracy theories?

Re: Matrix.org Breaks Federation: Users Can't Decrypt Messages from Other Servers

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Post by davidt84 »

xabadut wrote: post #2

The default and largest server for registering accounts on the Matrix network — matrix.org — has broken federation. Specifically, it has disrupted the exchange of encryption keys with all other servers. Users with accounts on matrix.org can communicate among themselves but cannot decrypt messages from users with accounts on any other servers. The error 'unable to decrypt message' appears in Element, and 'message coul…

Perhaps you should mention in your conspiratorial rant that you are in Russia.

Then it would be obvious that the most likely authority fighting against end-to-end encryption is Russia itself -- with no need to approach matrix, when they can simply block access to the relevant key-exchange endpoints at a network level.

Re: Matrix.org Breaks Federation: Users Can't Decrypt Messages from Other Servers

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Post by vikarti »

davidt84 wrote: post #12
xabadut wrote: post #2

The default and largest server for registering accounts on the Matrix network — matrix.org — has broken federation. Specifically, it has disrupted the exchange of encryption keys with all other servers. Users with accounts on matrix.org can communicate among themselves but cannot decrypt messages from users with accounts on any other servers. The error 'unable to decrypt message' appears in Element, and 'message coul…

Perhaps you should mention in your conspiratorial rant that you are in Russia. Then it would be obvious that the most likely authority fighting against end-to-end encryption is Russia itself -- with no need to approach matrix, when they can simply block access to the relevant key-exchange endpoints at a network level.

He is in Russia? Did he tried to run his own server _over vpn_? I did encounter a lot of strange issues with network connectivity if one of nodes is in Russia (especially on non-datacenter connection).TSPU could cause a lot of issues (to protect children from terrorists -:)). First thing to check is making _relilable_ encrypted VPN and checking via it.
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