Here is a publicly available paper which shows how you can break the older version of the E2EE in Nextcloud:
https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-infsec/appliedcrypto/education/theses/nextcloud.pdf
Let's hope they fixed it :)
Linus Gasser
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2026-06-05 07:38:57 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…shev
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