Document the requirement that clients track the message_index

pull/977/head
Mark Haines 8 years ago
parent 888e6a9f3b
commit 8641ef299e

@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ Encrypted events using this algorithm should have ``sender_key``,
Megolm session (see `below`__), the ciphertext can be
decrypted by passing the ciphertext into ``olm_group_decrypt``.
In order to avoid replay attacks a client should remember the megolm
``message_index`` of each event they decrypt for each session. If the client
decrypts an event with the same ``message_index`` as one that it has already
decrypted using that session then it should fail decryption.
__ `m.room_key`_
The client should check that the sender's fingerprint key matches the

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