… and I can’t even continue the chat from my phone.

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    6 months ago

    Optional how so? It’s a rotating key. Unless you have all of those keys to export into your computer, then you’ll be stuck with the current synced key.

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      6 months ago

      You can still push old message history from your main device to your other devices, you can re-encrypt

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      6 months ago

      I don’t see why the current key can’t encrypt old messages and send those. I admit I might be missing something obvious though. Maybe something like not wanting to accidentally leak old messages? As in it’s less attack surface or something?