Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ...
by Macha on Saturday January 30, 2021 @08:05AM
(#25968730)
So that article talks about third party clients - third party e2ee support has gone from "basically none" to "a few clients". It's complaints for the official client is that e2ee is opt in (not anymore), fingerprints are shown base64 rather than base10 (a: who cares, b: there's an emoji encoded display now for shorter user recognisible fingerprints) and that it warns about being in beta (it isn't anymore).
Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ...
by feanaro on Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:41AM
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> e.g. the future that we're heading to in the EU is the same as 5/9-eye countries: there will be a "legal" way of encryption and another one that is illegal, all depending if access can be given to 3rd parties / LE...
Why do you say there will be, as if the future is predetermined? Perhaps we should re-evaluate that and help prevent it from happening instead of complacently stating something as if it is a foregone conclusion?
Your words matter here. The way you are using them is helping materialize the future you do not want.
what is the actual state of matrix e2ee today? (or is that question silly because it depends what the individual matrix clients chooses to implement).
I'm extremely excited about having a federated e2ee messenger, however as a "Lawful-Intercept" realist, I don't have a lot of hope that it will not get forced to comply with current EU regulation proposals, that prevents Matrix from fulfilling its promise as fully e2ee. (e.g. the future that we're heading to in the EU is the same as 5/9-eye countries: there will be a "legal" way of encryption and another one that is illegal, all depending if access can be given to 3rd parties / LE...)
[1] (Sad) state of E2EE in Matrix clients (from 2018): https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9avyen/sad_state_o...