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Encryption
Maubot has basic support for end-to-end encryption~~, but it is not yet exposed in the web management UI~~. It is now exposed in the web management UI too.
Dependencies
To enable encryption, you must first have maubot installed with the e2be
optional dependency. To do this, you can either add [e2be] at the end of the
package in the pip install command, e.g. pip install --upgrade maubot[e2be].
Alternatively, you can install the dependencies manually (asyncpg,
python-olm, pycryptodome and unpaddedbase64). The Docker image has all
optional dependencies installed by default.
Getting a fresh device ID
When using maubot with encryption, you must have an access token and a device ID
that haven't been used in an e2ee-capable client. In other words, you can't take
the access token from Element, you have to log in manually. The easiest way to
do that is to use mbc auth.
Actually enabling encryption
After installing dependencies, put the device ID in the maubot client, either
using the web UI or just the --update-client flag with mbc auth.