Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision

Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by uhoreg on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:11PM (#21839824)

> E.g., I have one device 'foo' which you already trust. I add a new device 'bar'. Why on earth would you want to verify its key manually when I could just send you the new key from 'foo' which you already trust?

This particular issue is being worked on right now in Riot, and should be fixed early in the new year.

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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by boring_twenties on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:14PM (#21839849)

That is awesome, but any thoughts on why I cannot easily view the keys of my other devices in the UI?

If I could then this would be a minor inconvenience at best, I'd just copy/paste the key from the already-trusted device.

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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by Arathorn on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:24PM (#21840700)

I guess we just prioritised working on cross-signing etc rather than adding in UI for this. Sorry; it's an oversight.

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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by boring_twenties on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:34PM (#21840755)

Thank you for your quick and patient answers to my perhaps too demanding questions.

Cross-signing is obviously better, no question about that. However this simple UI change would be at least 95% as good, and certainly good enough to have prevented my friends from giving up on Riot.

I hope that is at least somewhat constructive. Thank you for your work.

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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by Arathorn on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:53PM (#21840856)

I guess https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2735 is the bug to upvote. Annoying it's been stuck open forever :(

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