Document domain reuse concerns

Fixes https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1783
pull/977/head
Travis Ralston 6 years ago
parent 0f3aa3fa8a
commit 48e4d6e412

@ -1303,6 +1303,16 @@ Example code
known hash functions like SHA-256 when none of the keys have been redacted]]
Security considerations
-----------------------
When a domain's ownership changes, the new controller of the domain can masquerade
as the previous owner, receiving messages (similarly to email) and request past
messages from other servers. In the future, proposals like
`MSC1228 <https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1228>`_ will address this
issue.
.. |/query/directory| replace:: ``/query/directory``
.. _/query/directory: #get-matrix-federation-v1-query-directory

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