Re-arrange security impact of knocking.

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Patrick Cloke 3 years ago committed by Richard van der Hoff
parent bf41af7c15
commit 517174b19d

@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Any user who is able to join a room can access the stripped state events of that
Potential ways that a user might be able to join include, but are not limited to,
the following mechanisms:
* A room that has `join_rules` set to `public` or `knock`.<sup id="a1">[1](#f1)</sup>
* A room that has `join_rules` set to `public` or `knock`.
* A room that the user is in possession of an invite to (regardless of the `join_rules`).
Future MSCs might include additional mechanism for a user to join a room and
@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ should consider this MSC, for example:
Additionally, it is recommended, but not required, that homeserver implementations
include the following as stripped state events:
* Create event (`m.room.create`)<sup id="a2">[2](#f2)</sup>
* Create event (`m.room.create`)<sup id="a1">[2](#f1)</sup>
* Join rules (`m.room.join_rules`)
* Canonical alias (`m.room.canonical_alias`)
* Room avatar (`m.room.avatar`)
* Room name (`m.room.name`)
* Encrypted status (`m.room.encryption`)<sup id="a3">[3](#f3)</sup>
* Encrypted status (`m.room.encryption`)<sup id="a2">[3](#f2)</sup>
This also implies that the above information is available to any potential joiner
in the API proposed in [MSC2946: Spaces summary](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946).
@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ knocking.
## Security considerations
This would allow for invisibly accessing the stripped state of a room with `knock`
join rules. This is already trivially accessible by knocking on the room, but
currently users in the room would know that the knock occurred. This does not
seem to be a major weakening of the security.
## Future extensions
Dedicated client-server and server-server APIs could be added to request the
@ -111,10 +116,7 @@ N/A
## Footnotes
<a id="f1"/>[1]: The rationale for including `knock` is that the user can
trivially get this state already by knocking on the room.[↩](#a1)
<a id="f2"/>[2]: As updated in [MSC1772](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1772).[↩](#a2)
<a id="f1"/>[1]: As updated in [MSC1772](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1772).[↩](#a1)
<a id="f3"/>[3]: This is already sent from Synapse and generally seems useful for
a user to know before joining a room.[↩](#a3)
<a id="f2"/>[2]: This is already sent from Synapse and generally seems useful for
a user to know before joining a room.[↩](#a2)

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