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Loudly warn if you are DMing a user who has no E2EE capable devices #15675

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ara4n opened this issue Nov 8, 2020 · 0 comments · Fixed by matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#5929
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ara4n commented Nov 8, 2020

Currently if you DM a user, your client will dutifully auto-enable E2EE - but if that user doesn't yet exist (it's a 3PID invite as per #12902), or if we've yet to sync their device list and get their E2EE keys, we will almost-silently send unencrypted messages to them (as per #12313).

Instead, we should put an explicit big warning in the timeline that we haven't found any encryption capable devices for this user yet, and so any messages sent will not be E2EE.

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