Julian, On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Julian Steinwachs <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hey, i don't know how much this feature is going to be used in the end. > But since twitter has it, it is going to be asked for anyway... > Really? I never heard about Twitter group chat! I thought more of whatsapp. > I see a problem with the draft, though. These group chats will probably > have a long live time in some cases. When now one of the participants > looses or his or her wallet or simply imports the privatekey at a different > client, every direct message of every following along way back must be > decrypted to look for invitation messages. Otherwise the client won't be > able to receive new group messages from these groups. > Yes, but the invitation is still there (in user's torrent of whoever invited to the chat). So nothing is lost, we just need to reevaluate the DMs. In fact, we have an API for this job already: rescandirectmsgs > > A possible solution would be that the clients save the group keys in the > profile (encrypted of course). For that we would need to specify the exact > form in which they are saved. Maybe a new field called "private" which is > encypted and in that a field called "group_invites" which holds an array of > the group invitations that are still active in decrypted form. > > It wouldn't scale. You might have unlimited group chats and your profile has limited space... regards, Miguel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "twister-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
