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fix: share to end-to-end encrypted rooms from the share extension - #7865
The share extension ("Share to Rocket.Chat" from Photos, Files or another app) never listed end-to-end encrypted rooms. A blanket if (item.encrypted) return null in the share list, added with mobile file encryption (#5678), hid every encrypted DM and private room on both platforms. On workspaces that encrypt new DMs and private rooms by default, most recent private conversations couldn't be reached from the share sheet.
Sending already went through the encrypted path: the share extension uses the same ShareView, sendAttachments and sendMessage as the room's + button. What was missing was a guard, so this change replaces the filter with checks:
Share list: encrypted rooms appear in the list and in search. A room that can't be shared to yet is shown disabled, with the reason as its subtitle. These are the same checks the room view uses:
"Enter your E2EE password to share here" when the user's E2EE password hasn't been entered on this device.
"Waiting for encryption keys" when the room key hasn't reached the user yet.
The list re-renders when encryption finishes initializing.
ShareView: in the share extension, before sending, Encryption.canSendToRoom(rid) waits for the encryption client and checks the room's session key. If the key isn't there, it shows the existing "Check back in a few moments" alert and sends nothing. ShareView opened from a room skips this check, because the room composer already blocks rooms without a key, and still closes before anything is awaited.
encryptFile fails closed: it used to upload the plain file when an encrypted room had no session key. That was unreachable from the room view, which blocks the composer in that state, but reachable from a cold-start share. It now throws instead, matching encryptMessage, which already refused to send. The upload then shows as failed with a retry button instead of staying on "Uploading". Plain upload is kept when E2EE is off for the workspace or file encryption is disabled.
Room handshake settles when no key is available: when a room's handshake ends without a key (it requested the key from other members, or importing it failed), handshakes that were waiting on it are now rejected instead of hanging forever. getRoomInstance catches that and returns null, which its callers already handle. The next handshake for the room starts fresh. This is shared encryption code, so it applies outside sharing too.
DirectoryItem: new disabledReason prop. The row is dimmed, screen readers read the reason as the accessibility hint, and tapping shows it as a toast instead of pressing. iOS uses NativeListRow's existing disabledReason; Android does the same itself.
The 2024 note on #5678 mentions an infinite loop on iOS. The share extension no longer dispatches encryptionInit itself; it waits for login, and login success starts encryption. Cold-start shares to encrypted rooms ran with no loop on both platforms (see below).
Workspace with E2EE enabled, user A with the E2EE password set, an encrypted private room R with user B, and an unencrypted room C.
As A, share a photo from Photos (iOS) or Files (Android) to Rocket.Chat. R is listed and enabled, and searching for it finds it.
Send the photo to R. It shows decrypted in R. Through the API the message is t: 'e2e' and the uploaded bytes aren't a JPEG.
Share text to R. It arrives as t: 'e2e'.
Share a photo to C. It arrives as a normal image.
Force-quit the app, then share a photo to R. The share list loads once, with no loop, and the photo sends once.
Create R while B has no E2EE keys, then log in as B. In the share list R is dimmed with "Waiting for encryption keys", and tapping shows that reason as a toast instead of opening the room.
Log in as B on a device where the E2EE password hasn't been entered. R is dimmed with "Enter your E2EE password to share here". After entering the password, R is enabled.
As B, open R. A's shared photo and text are decrypted.
All 8 pass on an iPhone 17 simulator (iOS 27) and an Android emulator (API 34), debug builds, against mobile.qa. The toast on tapping a disabled row in step 6, and screen readers reading its reason, were added after that run and are covered by unit tests only.
The "Check back in a few moments" alert in ShareView wasn't triggered on a device: the share list disables those rooms first, so ShareView can't be reached for them. Unit tests cover it.
Screenshots
Android
Encrypted room listed and found by search
clip1-e2ee-room-listed-and-searchable.mp4
Image shared to the encrypted room
clip2-encrypted-file-share.mp4
Shared image renders decrypted in the room
clip2b-encrypted-file-renders.mp4
Text shared to the encrypted room
clip3-text-share-to-e2ee-room.mp4
Unencrypted room still works
clip4-unencrypted-room-share.mp4
Share after force-stop: no loop, sends once
clip5-cold-start-share.mp4
Room key not received yet: disabled with "Waiting for encryption keys"
clip6-waiting-for-keys-disabled.mp4
E2EE password not entered: disabled with "Enter your E2EE password to share here", then the password is entered
clip7-password-required-B.mp4
Recipient decrypts the shared text and image
clip8-recipient-decrypts.mp4
iOS
Encrypted rooms listed: one enabled, one waiting for keys
1a-share-list-shows-encrypted-room.mp4
Search finds the encrypted room
1b-search-finds-encrypted-room.mp4
Shared photo decrypted in the room
2b-photo-decrypted-in-room.mp4
Text shared to the encrypted room
3-text-sent-to-encrypted-room.mp4
Share after force-quit: a single splash, then the share list
5b-cold-start-share-list.mp4
Room key not received yet: disabled with "Waiting for encryption keys"
6-waiting-for-keys-disabled.mp4
E2EE password not entered: encrypted rooms disabled
7a-b-password-required-disabled.mp4
After entering the password, the room with a key becomes enabled
7c-a-enabled-after-password.mp4
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Found while verifying, not caused by this change: on a fresh form login in a debug build, E2EE keys were created locally but not uploaded until the app was relaunched and the password set manually. Worth its own issue.
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New Features
Encrypted rooms now appear in the sharing list. Rooms that aren’t ready for encrypted sharing are disabled and display a reason, such as a missing password or room key.
Disabled directory items provide an accessibility hint and show the reason when tapped.
Bug Fixes
Sharing attachments is blocked when room encryption isn’t available, and an error is shown instead.
Files are no longer sent unencrypted when encryption is enabled but the room’s encryption key is missing.
Failed file uploads retain their error details for clearer recovery.
Encryption handshakes now report failures and can retry key setup.
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Encryption readiness now determines whether encrypted rooms can be selected or receive shared files. The share list displays unavailable reasons, handshake failures reject readiness, and file-upload errors follow paths based on whether an upload started.
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E2EE sharing availability
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Summary
Encryption readiness and handshake state app/lib/encryption/encryption.ts, app/lib/encryption/encryption.test.ts, app/lib/encryption/room.ts, app/lib/encryption/room.test.ts
encryptFile returns the original file when workspace E2E is disabled or the room is unencrypted. It throws when an encrypted room has no session key. canSendToRoom reports room readiness. Handshake failures reject the pending readiness promise and reset handshake state.
The share-list query includes encrypted rooms and their encryption state. Unavailable rooms show a localized reason and are disabled. DirectoryItem exposes the reason as an accessibility hint and toast, and applies disabled styling on both platforms.
sequenceDiagram
participant ShareView
participant Encryption
participant Database
participant ErrorAlert
ShareView->>Encryption: canSendToRoom(rid)
Encryption->>Database: get subscription by room ID
Database-->>Encryption: subscription encryption state
Encryption-->>ShareView: room readiness result
ShareView->>ErrorAlert: show alert if room is unavailable
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.ReactNative#7866: Changes encrypted message and file-send behavior when a session key is missing, using related encryption and sending contracts.
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Encrypted-room sharing still has unresolved risks that could expose unencrypted messages, mishandle uploads, prevent valid shares, or duplicate attachments. These should be resolved before merging.
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Review comments at @app/lib/encryption/encryption.ts:
- Around line 631-632: Update canSendToRoom to return false when the room
subscription is missing, and make the text-send subscription lookup in
encryptMessage fail closed so a lookup failure cannot send an unencrypted
message through sendMessage.
- Around line 623-624: Update the sendFileMessageV2 error handling so a missing
queue entry does not imply cancellation: preserve explicit cancellation
handling, but persist and rethrow other errors, including failures thrown before
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not fall through to closing the share extension.
Review comments at @app/views/ShareListView/index.tsx:
- Line 440: Update both platform variants of DirectoryItem so disabled rows
include their unavailable reason in the accessibility label or hint, reusing the
reason already supplied through description while preserving the existing title
and right-label accessibility information.
- Around line 412-413: Update the isMissingRoomE2EEKey check so an encrypted
room with neither E2EKey nor e2eKeyId remains selectable when its key can be
created locally; keep rooms requiring a key from another user unavailable, or
allow selection and rely on the send-time readiness check.
- Around line 277-278: Update ShareListView to observe subscription changes or
refresh its room query when subscription data changes, keeping the copied E2EKey
and encryptionEnabled values current so a room becomes selectable as soon as its
key arrives without reopening the share extension.
Review comments at @app/views/ShareView/index.tsx:
- Line 255: Invalidate the pending share operation when componentWillUnmount
runs, and check that it is still active after Encryption.canSendToRoom resolves
before sending the attachment, clearing the draft, or navigating; preserve the
existing readiness behavior while preventing a closed view’s operation from
continuing.
- Line 255: Add a synchronous in-flight guard in the send handler before
awaiting Encryption.canSendToRoom, shared by both share paths, so repeated taps
cannot start concurrent sends. Release the guard when readiness fails and when
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extraData={encryptionEnabled} only changes when the global encryption state changes. If a subscription receives E2EKey while encryptionEnabled is already true, the cached room data remains unchanged and the row stays disabled until the extension reloads. Refresh the subscription query or observe room-record updates. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Encrypted rooms were hidden from the share list. They now show up, and
rooms that can't be shared to yet are disabled with the reason. Sending
waits for the room key, and encryptFile no longer uploads a plaintext
file into an encrypted room when the key is missing.
A handshake that ended without a key left concurrent callers awaiting a
readyPromise that never settled, which kept the share extension loading
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app/i18n/locales/pt-PT.json-559-559: 1
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Use European Portuguese terminology for the password prompt.
senha is Brazilian Portuguese terminology. Use palavra-passe in the pt-PT locale.
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- "Share_encrypted_room_password_required": "Introduza a sua senha E2EE para partilhar aqui",+ "Share_encrypted_room_password_required": "Introduza a sua palavra-passe E2EE para partilhar aqui",
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- Treat unloaded E2E_Enable settings as enabled, so files are not uploaded unencrypted
- Hide encrypted rooms from the share list on servers older than 6.10
- Show "waiting for keys" instead of the password prompt while encryption starts
- Include the disabled reason in the DirectoryItem accessibility label
- Reject waiting room handshakes without an error
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The share extension ("Share to Rocket.Chat" from Photos, Files or another app) never listed end-to-end encrypted rooms. A blanket
if (item.encrypted) return nullin the share list, added with mobile file encryption (#5678), hid every encrypted DM and private room on both platforms. On workspaces that encrypt new DMs and private rooms by default, most recent private conversations couldn't be reached from the share sheet.Sending already went through the encrypted path: the share extension uses the same
ShareView,sendAttachmentsandsendMessageas the room's + button. What was missing was a guard, so this change replaces the filter with checks:Share list: encrypted rooms appear in the list and in search. A room that can't be shared to yet is shown disabled, with the reason as its subtitle. These are the same checks the room view uses:
The list re-renders when encryption finishes initializing.
ShareView: in the share extension, before sending,
Encryption.canSendToRoom(rid)waits for the encryption client and checks the room's session key. If the key isn't there, it shows the existing "Check back in a few moments" alert and sends nothing. ShareView opened from a room skips this check, because the room composer already blocks rooms without a key, and still closes before anything is awaited.encryptFilefails closed: it used to upload the plain file when an encrypted room had no session key. That was unreachable from the room view, which blocks the composer in that state, but reachable from a cold-start share. It now throws instead, matchingencryptMessage, which already refused to send. The upload then shows as failed with a retry button instead of staying on "Uploading". Plain upload is kept when E2EE is off for the workspace or file encryption is disabled.Room handshake settles when no key is available: when a room's handshake ends without a key (it requested the key from other members, or importing it failed), handshakes that were waiting on it are now rejected instead of hanging forever.
getRoomInstancecatches that and returnsnull, which its callers already handle. The next handshake for the room starts fresh. This is shared encryption code, so it applies outside sharing too.DirectoryItem: newdisabledReasonprop. The row is dimmed, screen readers read the reason as the accessibility hint, and tapping shows it as a toast instead of pressing. iOS usesNativeListRow's existingdisabledReason; Android does the same itself.The 2024 note on #5678 mentions an infinite loop on iOS. The share extension no longer dispatches
encryptionInititself; it waits for login, and login success starts encryption. Cold-start shares to encrypted rooms ran with no loop on both platforms (see below).Issue(s)
https://rocketchat.atlassian.net/browse/NATIVE-1876
How to test or reproduce
Workspace with E2EE enabled, user A with the E2EE password set, an encrypted private room R with user B, and an unencrypted room C.
t: 'e2e'and the uploaded bytes aren't a JPEG.t: 'e2e'.All 8 pass on an iPhone 17 simulator (iOS 27) and an Android emulator (API 34), debug builds, against mobile.qa. The toast on tapping a disabled row in step 6, and screen readers reading its reason, were added after that run and are covered by unit tests only.
The "Check back in a few moments" alert in ShareView wasn't triggered on a device: the share list disables those rooms first, so ShareView can't be reached for them. Unit tests cover it.
Screenshots
Android
Encrypted room listed and found by search
clip1-e2ee-room-listed-and-searchable.mp4
Image shared to the encrypted room
clip2-encrypted-file-share.mp4
Shared image renders decrypted in the room
clip2b-encrypted-file-renders.mp4
Text shared to the encrypted room
clip3-text-share-to-e2ee-room.mp4
Unencrypted room still works
clip4-unencrypted-room-share.mp4
Share after force-stop: no loop, sends once
clip5-cold-start-share.mp4
Room key not received yet: disabled with "Waiting for encryption keys"
clip6-waiting-for-keys-disabled.mp4
E2EE password not entered: disabled with "Enter your E2EE password to share here", then the password is entered
clip7-password-required-B.mp4
Recipient decrypts the shared text and image
clip8-recipient-decrypts.mp4
iOS
Encrypted rooms listed: one enabled, one waiting for keys
1a-share-list-shows-encrypted-room.mp4
Search finds the encrypted room
1b-search-finds-encrypted-room.mp4
Shared photo decrypted in the room
2b-photo-decrypted-in-room.mp4
Text shared to the encrypted room
3-text-sent-to-encrypted-room.mp4
Share after force-quit: a single splash, then the share list
5b-cold-start-share-list.mp4
Room key not received yet: disabled with "Waiting for encryption keys"
6-waiting-for-keys-disabled.mp4
E2EE password not entered: encrypted rooms disabled
7a-b-password-required-disabled.mp4
After entering the password, the room with a key becomes enabled
7c-a-enabled-after-password.mp4
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