On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 1:10 PM Daniel Gultsch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 9:41 AM Goffi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's exactly that; having all in one pubsub item means having the whole > > roster each time there is an update. Legacy bookmark was doing that, and > > experience showed that it caused troubles. > > I’m expecting significantly fewer writes to the roster than on > bookmarks because we are not - for example - flipping autjoin flags. > > To me the encryption here is the overhead. Especially OpenPGP has a > certain overhead per item. On initial connect I would much rather > decrypt one item and have the entire roster instead of n items. > > And having one item also adds a bit of obscurity since the server > doesn’t see exactly how many users are in my roster, If i’m deleting > or adding a roster item and so forth.
Oh. And you are also avoiding weird bugs where various items of the roster are encrypted with different key material. I mean obviously nobody would attempt to do that on purpose but key material can change after device migration and stuff. cheers Daniel _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
