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"invisible cryptography" I sure hope this isn't an empty promise. The number one gripe I have with matrix/element is the absolutely horrendous crypto dance they make you do.
What are you talking about? Even before this new “invisible cryptography” you set it up once per device and never have to think about it again.
except for the "unable to decrypt" errors, and when new invitees can't read previous messages
It's probably the number one reason I can't convince friends to move over, I know they would bawk at how it makes them do that on every device
I studied cryptography and I can't figure out how to do the dance right. I thought I did, but one of my contacts says they can't read any message I send them. And I can't message them to figure out why.
We haven't spoken since. Thanks Matrix.
while I agree that there are too many problems right now, 2 things really can't be avoided:
well, unless they are fine with using it like signal, which is basically one device only
Signal can have multiple devices, I have it on my phone and laptop.
(part 2) technically, though, the other part of it is still the case: if you haven't set yo key backup and you lost your phone, don't be surprised if you can't recover all your messages
that must be a relatively new feature
Not really, have used it for years like that. But you need to set it up initially on your phone. The newish feature (less than a year) is that I think they do not require a phone number to set up a new account.
How do you do that? A few days ago I have registered again, and I didn't see the option. Didn't you perhaps mean that the app can hide phone numbers?
Ah that must be it sorry. I thought they had decorelated phone numbers and IDs
I must mention though that their solution is not really efficient. Everyone's app gets the phone number, its just not displayed anymore. This can be circumvented with a little modification of the app, which is easy because it's open source.
Good to know, thanks!