[Bug]: Client side encryption triggers strange activities
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bug
feature: activity and notification
feature: encryption (client-side)
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Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
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Bug description
When I use client-side encryption I see activities that the "encrypted" folder (the name of my test folder) was renamed to "encrypted" every time I created a new file in the encrypted folder or if I edit a existing one:
tested on c.nc.com
Steps to reproduce
- Create a new folder
- Enable e2e encryption for the folder
- create new files in the folder / edit existing one
- check the activities in your browser
Expected behavior
No strange activities
Nextcloud Server version
31
Operating system
None
PHP engine version
None
Web server
None
Database engine version
None
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
None
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
None
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
List of activated Apps
Nextcloud Signing status
Nextcloud Logs
Additional info
No response
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Research direction
No source file or test is identified in the report. Start by reproducing the issue with the listed steps, then inspect the resulting browser activities while creating and editing files in the encrypted folder. Done means those operations no longer produce misleading rename activities.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100