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by tptacek 2364 days ago
E2E in Matrix "works" with which Matrix clients? The whole point of a decentralized federated messaging protocol is to allow people to build their own clients. Do Matrix clients uniformly and interoperably support E2E today?
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Arathorn 2364 days ago
Nearly; we’re aiming to force on E2E by default at end of Jan (but it’s getting tight). There are at least 6 complete independent implementations, and once cross-signing lands it’s good to go. For clients/bots/bridges without E2E we have pantalaimon (a clientside daemon which you proxy all the traffic through in order to encrypt it).
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progval 2364 days ago
Out of curiosity, what are these implementations?
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Arathorn 2364 days ago
matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk, matrix-android-sdk, matrix-androidx-sdk (soon to be refactored out of riotx), matrix-nio (py3), mtx-client (c++).

In dev you also have libQuotient, metaolm and matrix-purple.

matrix-python-sdk also has support, but got replaced by matrix-nio.

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