Minor clarifications to the "end-to-end encryption" module (#1863)

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Richard van der Hoff 2 weeks ago committed by GitHub
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Minor clarifications to the "end-to-end encryption" module.

@ -1530,9 +1530,11 @@ claiming to have sent messages which they didn't. `sender` must
correspond to the user who sent the event, `recipient` to the local
user, and `recipient_keys` to the local ed25519 key.
Clients must confirm that the `sender_key` and the `ed25519` field value
under the `keys` property match the keys returned by [`/keys/query`](/client-server-api/#post_matrixclientv3keysquery) for
the given user, and must also verify the signature of the keys from the
Clients must confirm that the `sender_key` property in the cleartext
`m.room.encrypted` event body, and the `keys.ed25519` property in the
decrypted plaintext, match the keys returned by
[`/keys/query`](#post_matrixclientv3keysquery) for
the given user. Clients must also verify the signature of the keys from the
`/keys/query` response. Without this check, a client cannot be sure that
the sender device owns the private part of the ed25519 key it claims to
have in the Olm payload. This is crucial when the ed25519 key corresponds

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