Wire-webapp: Chat history synchronization
I'm sure I don't get something in concepts of Wire, but anyway. Why I cannot get chat history synchronized on newly added device even if it was marked as verified in settings?
Thanks in advance.
ghost
All 4 comments
Short answer: For privacy and encryption reasons. This doesn't have anything to do with marking another device as verified and is intended behaviour.
Longer answer: All sent messages are encrypted for all your current devices. When you add a new device, your old messages are not encrypted for your new device and can't be re-encrypted because your new device never saw those messages unencrypted (also the other devices won't re-encrypt them because it would take too much time and would break the privacy concept).
Complete and complex answer: Read the Wire Security Whitepaper (4.1 End-to-end encryption).
ffflorian
on 21 Nov 2016
OK, clear. Thanks for comments!
ghost
on 21 Nov 2016
Alright, could you close this issue then? Thanks!
ffflorian
on 24 Nov 2016
Thanks @ffflorian for clarifying it. If you have more questions/issues @timur-davletshin don't hesitate to open another issue :)
lipis
on 24 Nov 2016
Related issues
rosspi
路
5Comments
0xdade
路
5Comments
ghost
路
4Comments
regexident
路
3Comments
dietmarw
路
4Comments
Most helpful comment
Short answer: For privacy and encryption reasons. This doesn't have anything to do with marking another device as verified and is intended behaviour.
Longer answer: All sent messages are encrypted for all your current devices. When you add a new device, your old messages are not encrypted for your new device and can't be re-encrypted because your new device never saw those messages unencrypted (also the other devices won't re-encrypt them because it would take too much time and would break the privacy concept).
Complete and complex answer: Read the Wire Security Whitepaper (
4.1 End-to-end encryption).