Element-web sends, and responds to, hopeless m.room_key_request
messages
#23766
Labels
A-E2EE
O-Frequent
Affects or can be seen by most users regularly or impacts most users' first experience
S-Tolerable
Low/no impact on users
T-Defect
Team: Crypto
The mitigations to CVE-2022-39249 and friends mean that we will never trust an
m.forwarded_room_key
message from another user's device. Accordingly, there is no point sendingm.room_key_request
messages to other users.Nevertheless we still send such messages, and indeed respond to them. Not doing so would reduce the volume of to-device messages that need to be sent around and processed, and might also make debugging UTD errors easier because of the reduced noise.
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