element-hq / element-hq/element-web

SSSS upload can fail during bootstrap leaving the account in a broken state

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Description

We upload public keys and then upload the private ones to SSSS (secure secret storage and sharing): if the latter fails then we end up in an inconsistent state, especially if we were resetting in which case we have different keys in each place

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