• @acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    11 month ago

    the author literally picked random projects from github tagged as matrix, without considering their prevalence or whether they are actually maintained etc.

    if you actually look at % of impacted clients, it’s tiny.

    meanwhile, it is very unclear that any sidechannel attack on a libolm based client is practical over the network (which is why we didn’t fix this years ago). After all, the limited primitives are commented on in the readme and https://github.com/matrix-org/olm/issues/3 since day 1.

    From your link.

    • @e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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      130 days ago

      That is exactly what it says. They knew about security issues in their library and didn’t fix them for years. This isn’t being ignorant, this is negligence.