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Authentication for push gateway API
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A-Push
feature
- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 330
- Forks
- 150
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
What is the recommendation for securing a Push gateway?
How can my private push gateway trust incoming notifications?
Documentation here https://matrix.org/docs/spec/push_gateway/r0.1.0.html does not touch on this topic.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the referenced Push Gateway specification at https://matrix.org/docs/spec/push_gateway/r0.1.0.html and identify the missing guidance for securing a private gateway. Research how incoming notifications can be trusted, then document a decided recommendation and its scope in the Matrix specification.
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Assessment
- Domain
- api, documentation, security
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100