From 503ac6ba9f508d1f4fee0269008f6944e40ea78f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Quentin Dufour Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:21:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] typo --- ...igrate-encrypted-room-to-a-clear-text-one.md | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2022-03-24-matrix-migrate-encrypted-room-to-a-clear-text-one.md b/_posts/2022-03-24-matrix-migrate-encrypted-room-to-a-clear-text-one.md index 35fec36..6636a10 100644 --- a/_posts/2022-03-24-matrix-migrate-encrypted-room-to-a-clear-text-one.md +++ b/_posts/2022-03-24-matrix-migrate-encrypted-room-to-a-clear-text-one.md @@ -9,18 +9,19 @@ category: operation tags: --- -Some time ago, the Matrix team was pushing hard E2EE and activated for all created rooms. -Believing encryption was the future, we kept this default for all the rooms we created. -But now that one of our room starts being popular, it appeares that E2EE does not work well with public rooms: +Some time ago, the Matrix team was pushing hard E2EE and activated it for all created rooms. +Believing encryption was the future, we kept this default for all of our rooms. +But now that one of our room starts being popular, it appears that E2EE does not work well with public rooms: 1. the history is not available to newcomers 2. we can not search the history of an encrypted room (or at least, I never managed to make it work even with the desktop app) - 3. notifications options are limited on mobile + 3. notification options are more limited 4. scaling issues - 5. and so on. + 5. many additional minor issues -It seems that Matrix developpers are aware of these problems as now, if you create a "public room", you will not be asked to encrypt it at all. -But for existing rooms, we have a problem: for security reasons, you can't disable encryption in a room. +It seems that Matrix developers are aware of these problems as if you create a "public room" now, you will not be proposed to encrypt it. +But for existing rooms, we still have a problem: for security reasons, you can't disable encryption in a room. Our only option is to create a new room and to point the old one to the new one. + Thankfully, Matrix has a feature named **Tombstone** that helps redirecting users from one room to another. This feature is used for room version upgrade, but we can "abuse" it to redirect people to a completely different room. @@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ You can set a new alias for your old room and send a message containing it on yo > Hi, this is the beginning of the history of this room. If you want to go back even more in time, check the old room: #myroom-old:example.tld -Finally, you need the identifier of your room. It starts with a `!`. For example: `!ARbIZeDKGloDOnjyyw:deuxfleurs.fr`. +Finally, you need the identifier of your **new** room. It starts with a `!`. For example: `!ARbIZeDKGloDOnjyyw:deuxfleurs.fr`. Keep it somewhere accessible, and we are done configuring our new room. We can now prepare the tombstone for the old room.