The team behind the Matrix open standard and real-time communication protocol has announced the release of its second major version, bringing end-to-end encryption to group VoIP, faster loading times, and more.
You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it's nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn't), then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything, doesn't really tell you what to do about it, and you have to reconfirm with a 2ne device all over again (which, again, had better be nearby).
You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it’s nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn’t),
Your devices don't have to be nearby to verify them. You can enter a key backup passphrase instead.
then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything,
That's not normal. Looks like you ran into a bug. Did you report it, so it can be tracked and fixed?
I gather from their weekly reports that they've been fixing encryption bugs lately, and that the clients now in testing (the Element X code base) seem to have them solved. You might want to try those, or one of the third-party clients.
Yeah, I do wish they just let you disable encryption for all rooms at a server level. But years ago people gave the team so much shit for not supporting encryption that they added really good encryption, but it makes things harder. Nothing is free.
You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it's nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn't), then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything, doesn't really tell you what to do about it, and you have to reconfirm with a 2ne device all over again (which, again, had better be nearby).
Your devices don't have to be nearby to verify them. You can enter a key backup passphrase instead.
That's not normal. Looks like you ran into a bug. Did you report it, so it can be tracked and fixed?
I gather from their weekly reports that they've been fixing encryption bugs lately, and that the clients now in testing (the Element X code base) seem to have them solved. You might want to try those, or one of the third-party clients.
The new Rust library is really solid. Once things start moving to that instead of rolling their own, it will get a lot more smooth.
Can you tell me more about this? I’m running a synapse server at the moment, but if there’s about to be a smoother Rust option, I’m interested!
It’s a client library only. Keep running Synapse. :D
There technically is Conduit , but it's still in beta.
Yeah, I do wish they just let you disable encryption for all rooms at a server level. But years ago people gave the team so much shit for not supporting encryption that they added really good encryption, but it makes things harder. Nothing is free.