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by martinralbrecht 1275 days ago
Cool, thanks! That's interesting to know. Do you know how they deal with FOI and auditable communications in this case?

PS: I talked about the seemingly unexploitable IND-CCA vulnerability because it means Matrix can't give you some security guarantees: It should be fine - we don't have an exploit, only a vulnerability - but it is not clear how to reason to arrive at "there cannot be an exploit". If you care about security guarantees, you care about it.

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Good question about FOI and audit; unsure for their deployment. In general we use audit bots when needed (which are visible in the member list), and even in a client-controlled-membership world, they would complain bitterly if they saw traffic which they didn’t have the keys for.

Fair enough on IND-CCA; as you know, we are fixing it anyway.