ignore handshake messages seen from another device

moreover, prepare for marking peers as verified accross devices,
see detailed comment for observe_securejoin_on_other_device()
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B. Petersen
2020-02-27 13:37:46 +01:00
parent 4f8c5965ac
commit 7c39bb6659
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@@ -770,6 +770,38 @@ pub(crate) fn handle_securejoin_handshake(
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}
/// observe_securejoin_on_other_device() must be called when a self-sent securejoin message is seen.
/// currently, the message is only ignored, in the future,
/// we may mark peers as verified accross devices:
///
/// in a multi-device-setup, there may be other devices that "see" the handshake messages.
/// if the seen messages seen are self-sent messages encrypted+signed correctly with our key,
/// we can make some conclusions of it:
///
/// - if we see the self-sent-message vg-member-added/vc-contact-confirm,
/// we know that we're an inviter-observer.
/// the inviting device has marked a peer as verified on vg-request-with-auth/vc-request-with-auth
/// before sending vg-member-added/vc-contact-confirm - so, if we observe vg-member-added/vc-contact-confirm,
/// we can mark the peer as verified as well.
///
/// - if we see the self-sent-message vg-member-added-received
/// we know that we're an joiner-observer.
/// the joining device has marked the peer as verified on vg-member-added/vc-contact-confirm
/// before sending vg-member-added-received - so, if we observe vg-member-added-received,
/// we can mark the peer as verified as well.
///
/// to make this work, (a) some messages must not be deleted,
/// (b) we need a vc-contact-confirm-received message if bcc_self is set,
/// (c) we should make sure, we do not only rely on the unencrypted To:-header for identifying the peer
/// (in handle_securejoin_handshake() we have the oob information for that)
pub(crate) fn observe_securejoin_on_other_device(
_context: &Context,
_mime_message: &MimeMessage,
_contact_id: u32,
) -> Result<HandshakeMessage, HandshakeError> {
Ok(HandshakeMessage::Ignore)
}
fn secure_connection_established(context: &Context, contact_chat_id: ChatId) {
let contact_id: u32 = chat_id_2_contact_id(context, contact_chat_id);
let contact = Contact::get_by_id(context, contact_id);