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Clarify behaviour of deletion with untrusted hosts
Reading of the original explanation of how encrypted sync works might make one assume that deleting an encrypted copy of a file would be synchronised as a deletion onto plaintext hosts. This is not the case, so explicitly clarify this.
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T2 -> U1 [label="Encrypted by T2"]
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In the above scenarios, if the untrusted device U1 deletes a local copy of a
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file, this is not replicated directly to trusted hosts. Untrusted hosts might
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receive the notice, however.
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Similarly, it's fine to add "normal mode" synchronization between untrusted devices.
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