Clarify conditions for attack

pull/2078/head
Andrew Morgan 5 years ago
parent 085c5667a4
commit 8cba7adcdf

@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ send password reset tokens, and allows homeservers to implement the
functionality instead. The intention is to put less trust in the identity
server which is currently one of the most centralised components of Matrix. As
it stands, an attacker in control of a identity server can reset a user's
password if that user has registered a third-party identifier (3PID) with that
identity server, due to itself also handling the job of confirming the user's
password if the identity server is considered trusted by that homeserver, and
the user has registered at least one third-party identifier (3PID). This is due
to the identity server currently handling the job of confirming the user's
control of that identity.
The MSC aims to simply clarify that homeservers can take on the responisibility

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