Support end-to-end encryption

polysoft1 / libmatrix-client

A C++ client for the matrix communication protocol that is designed to not be dependent on specific libraries.

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Support end-to-end encryption #12

Open jaredoconnell opened 4 years ago

jaredoconnell commented 4 years ago

End to End Encryption is very important since most servers use it. Messages sent by others are not readable without this supported.

These must be supported:

Decrypting received messages
Encrypting messages that are being sent
All of the other stuff that must be done to verify the client.

Ideally, the API should not change in any way except the necessary things to setup E2E, as well as a bool or something in the message object that states whether the messages are encrypted.

jaredoconnell commented 4 years ago

It appears that we will be using OLM for encryption. It's designed by matrix.org for this. It's even natively written in C++. All other apps are using bindings.

https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm The documentation appears to be good. https://matrix-client.dpldocs.info/matrix.olm.html

Here is a master's thesis about adding E2EE: https://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/264169/makkonen_teemu.pdf?sequence=2

Here is another page for API endpoint information: https://matrix.org/docs/api/client-server/#/

This project is a C++ project that uses it, as an example: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/mtxclient

fire commented 3 years ago

What are the tasks needed to support this?

kdvalin commented 3 years ago

Currently tasks needed (not necessarily in this order):

[X] Get OLM into the CMake Buildchain
[x] Update Rooms to have an bool encrypted member (in progress/needs testing)
[ ] Message Decryption
[ ] Have a way to give encryption keys to program using the library for storage
[ ] Message Encryption

You can checkout the issue-12/feature-e2e branch for current code