Element shows "Decryption key withheld" when it wasn't #23803
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Well #23745 was S-Major, as were some of the related bug reports. If the the chat suddenly stops working completely it probably should not be considered a minor inconvenience. I mean the core functionality breaks irrevocably without user interaction and does not recover without "expert" technical assistance. Therefore I think it is appropriate to upgrade to S-major. |
It's just a misleading error message; this issue does not cause "the chat suddenly stops working completely". You may be thinking of some of the other crypto bugs, tracked at element-hq/element-meta#245. |
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* Implement decryption via the rust sdk ([\matrix-org#3074](matrix-org#3074)). * Handle edits which are bundled with an event, per MSC3925 ([\matrix-org#3045](matrix-org#3045)). * Add null check for our own member event ([\matrix-org#3082](matrix-org#3082)). * Handle group call getting initialised twice in quick succession ([\matrix-org#3078](matrix-org#3078)). Fixes element-hq/element-call#847. * Correctly handle limited sync responses by resetting the thread timeline ([\matrix-org#3056](matrix-org#3056)). Fixes element-hq/element-web#23952. Contributed by @justjanne. * Fix failure to start in firefox private browser ([\matrix-org#3058](matrix-org#3058)). Fixes element-hq/element-web#24216. * Fix spurious "Decryption key withheld" messages ([\matrix-org#3061](matrix-org#3061)). Fixes element-hq/element-web#23803. * Fix browser entrypoint ([\matrix-org#3051](matrix-org#3051)). Fixes matrix-org#3013.
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When Element Android (and other clients based on matrix-android-sdk2) gets an
m.room_key_requestfor a key that it doesn't have, it sends anm.room_key.withheldmessage with a code ofm.unavailable(see implementation).Having received the
m.unavailableresponse, Element-web shows "Decryption key withheld", which is misleading at best.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: