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Re:Riot releases end-to-end encryption: get ready to chat se... by Arathorn on Monday November 21, 2016 @05:18PM (#13009749)
yeah, this was a tricky one. Many of the problems NCC found are concerned with using the library correctly. For instance, if an app wants to turn off PFS for instance, it can. Technically this means that the library has a PFS vulnerability. However, sometimes this is a feature - e.g. if I want to be able to deliberately decrypt history to sync it to a new device.

We're looking at ways to try to better split the higher level crypto stuff into another library (which we'll then get NCC to audit) - but until then matrix-{js,ios,react}-sdk have implemented it separately.

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