From 2b5805255564bb80a63c73dd977b487c67c9007c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hubert Chathi Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:28:26 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add note about re-requesting megolm keys --- proposals/1719-olm_unwedging.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/proposals/1719-olm_unwedging.md b/proposals/1719-olm_unwedging.md index 13c4ea4b..e696c1e2 100644 --- a/proposals/1719-olm_unwedging.md +++ b/proposals/1719-olm_unwedging.md @@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ from; the client should not create a new session with another device if it has already created one for that given device in the past 1 hour. (TODO: is 1 hour the right amount of time?) +Clients may wish to ask the sender of the undecryptable messages to re-send the +message. For exampe, if the undecryptable message was a megolm session, then +the client can send an +[`m.room_key_request`](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.4.0.html#m-room-key-request) +message to request that the sender re-send the key. + The spec currently says, "If a client has multiple sessions established with another device, it should use the session from which it last received a message." (the last paragraph of the [`m.olm.v1.curve25519-aes-sha2`