I found it always ended up having to import some sort of recovery export of the private key and pray stuff work, I could not get the automatic session key stuff to work at all.
Where encryption works seemlessly is whatsapp and signal. But there the keys aren't exchanged or anything; a backlog is pushed from the primary device to the new device and future messages are also encrypted to the new device by advertising that key (AFAIUI).
Julian Andres Klode 🏳️🌈 /
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2024-11-01 07:44:02
in reply to nevent1q…nwnz
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