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Is it worth encrypting the body when scanning a encrypted media item?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api, security

Research direction

Start with the encrypted post body section in docs/api.md and review how the scanning API currently handles encrypted media bodies. Determine whether the public-key encryption requirement should be changed given TLS, and define the resulting API behavior before implementation.

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Description

We support doing a public key encryption of the file contents before scanning https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-content-scanner-python/blob/main/docs/api.md#encrypted-post-body, but it's quite an annoying faff to do for web clients. Given we already communicate over TLS for this, it seems overkill.

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
1d 7h
Merged PRs (30d)
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