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This simply cannot be true, since you have to decrypt the messages to send them to, for example, WhatsApp.
by _-___________-_ 6y ago
This simply cannot be true, since you have to decrypt the messages to send them to, for example, WhatsApp.
- rkangel 6y agoNope - you have to encrypt them to send them to WhatsApp. Why could you not encrypt them in the client and then send that encrypted message over the bridge, preserving E2E?
- TheCraiggers 6y agoBecause that's not how this works. The bridge has to have the unencrypted text, because it's the bridge that is communicating with WhatsApp/Signal/IRC/whatever. The client isn't the bridge, it's not communicating directly with WhatsApp, it's just communicating with a Matrix Bridge (over an encrypted channel) to a Synapse server you don't control.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoYou'd need WhatsApp's collaboration for this, which I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the bridge operator doesn't have. There are two encrypted channels: client<->bridge, and bridge<->WhatsApp. The bridge can read the decrypted text, and the comment I replied to is a lie.