Decrypt encrypted messages with encryption disabled
Edgeburn opened this issue ยท 5 comments
Idea
The mod should attempt to decrypt encrypted messages with the set key, even if the user has message encryption disabled. This would be nice so that a conversation in encrypted messages can be initiated without first needing to tell the other person to enable encryption.
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I really don't think keeping decryption enabled at all times is a good idea...
- Description may be non-trivial for some devices/algorithms, meaning it will consume a non-zero amount of system resources
- The user seeing this will still have their messages written in plaintext, so it's kind of a false sense of security
- This feature would still be useless/waste of resources when the other parties' key or algorithm changes
Instead I think the idea of #245 would be better - automatically enabling certain algorithm/key per server.
Or, if awareness is the goal, maybe it would be more trivial for NCR to just detect and mention that "this message may be encrypted, try enabling encryption to read it".
Perhaps it should be a config option that could be enabled or disabled?
Or, if awareness is the goal, maybe it would be more trivial for NCR to just detect and mention that "this message may be encrypted, try enabling encryption to read it".
Unfortunately, the problem with this is that there's no way to decrypt the existing message as far as I'm aware (at least in-game)
What about an encryption mode, where you can click the lock icon (the encryption toggle) and it cycles between no encryption or decryption, encryption and decryption enabled, and now no encryption but decrypt incoming?
No matter how the toggle worked, it still seems to increase convenience at the expense of user security, because the receiving ends would be implicitly more vulnerable than before (because they'd not encrypt by default while reading messages of those who do). How would you solve that issue?
