[Battlemesh] Messages to me on Matrix

Kristoff kristoff at skypro.be
Mon May 20 13:43:02 CEST 2024


HI Daniel, all,


Some advice for a co manager of a matrix-server of an organization.

I have noticed that the room on matrix.org for battlemesh is encrypted. 
This does -indeed- mean that if a user loose his/her end-to-end 
encryption keys, they will lose access to these messages.


On our server, although it is possible for public rooms to be encrypted, 
we advice people who want to set up a room not to do that, just to avoid 
the issues you have.
In addition, you can ask yourself what is the additional value of 
encrypting messages in a room that is public to anybody anyway, 
Everybody can access the room and can see (and copy) all posts in the 
room anyway.

But, then, what we see a lot is that people start out with a limited 
room with just a few users, where you might say that encryption might 
make sense, and latter on decide to open up the room to everybody.

It is not possible to disable encryption of a room where encryption has 
been activated, so the most easy solution is simply create a new room, 
notify everybody of the existence of the new room and disable posting of 
a new messages in the old room.
After -say- half a year, you remove the old room.



Like any tool, matrix -or chat/discussion platform in general- requires 
some experience. It's usually not something you do right the first time.


Hope this helps.



Cheerio!
Kr. Bonne.


Op 30.03.24 om 00:28 schreef Daniel Golle via Battlemesh:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I see that people are trying to send messages to me on Matrix [1].
> Unfortunately, and not for the first time, my matrix client has lost
> it's private key. Loading the stored key backup also doesn't seem to
> work, or at least doesn't allow me to read those messages.
>
> I hereby declare that I cannot read messages on Matrix and will not
> put any further effort into (again) recovering that account, just for
> it to then (again) not to work after a longer period of not using it.
> Storing private keys in cookies and not having a working option to
> load them from disk 6 months after storing them, repeatedly,
> disqualifies Matrix for me. Plus I'm not willing to run yet another
> full-featured browser (Electron) jsut for yet another messenger.
> I know that there are CLI clients, but they are basically head-less
> browsers or bloatware written in Go and similar waste of RAM.
>
> tl;dr: If you want to reach me, please send emails.
> Ask for my Signal username by email if you want perfect-forward-secrecy.
>
> [1]:
> [Element] You have messages on Element in the battlemesh room...battlemesh
> An encrypted message.
> An encrypted message.
>
> View battlemesh athttps://matrix.to/#/!ujsqncWlAgAfpcmEMM:matrix.org/$171172164926071YVihD:matrix.org
> An encrypted message.
> An encrypted message.
>
> View battlemesh athttps://matrix.to/#/!ujsqncWlAgAfpcmEMM:matrix.org/$171172134626046OkqId:matrix.org
> An encrypted message.
> An encrypted message.
>
> View battlemesh athttps://matrix.to/#/!ujsqncWlAgAfpcmEMM:matrix.org/$171169101023443ziKPs:matrix.org
> An encrypted message.
> An encrypted message.
>
> View battlemesh athttps://matrix.to/#/!ujsqncWlAgAfpcmEMM:matrix.org/$171167509422588LWZst:matrix.org
> An encrypted message.
> An encrypted message.
>
> View battlemesh athttps://matrix.to/#/!ujsqncWlAgAfpcmEMM:matrix.org/$171166845220340PWfli:matrix.org
> An encrypted message.
> An encrypted message.
>
> View battlemesh athttps://matrix.to/#/!ujsqncWlAgAfpcmEMM:matrix.org/$171166747720288yvhwK:matrix.org
> An encrypted message.
> An encrypted message.
>
> View battlemesh athttps://matrix.to/#/!ujsqncWlAgAfpcmEMM:matrix.org/$171166739522197aPtUU:matrix.org
> An encrypted message.
> An encrypted message.
>
> View battlemesh athttps://matrix.to/#/!ujsqncWlAgAfpcmEMM:matrix.org/$171166671522122FfqZV:matrix.org
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