Matrix E2E OTK (One Time Key) and Apprise Overhead Fix
Author: caroncCreated Apr 15, 2026Updated Apr 15, 2026
Labelsenhancement
The Situation
Matrix OTK (One Time Key) upload is irrelevant for Apprise. Having the OTK upload to the server is only useful for other users to send encrypted messages to the Apprise bot device/session. But Apprise is outbound only.
With 0 OTK for the bot account session (getting rid of any otk generation/upload code) the target still receives our encrypted messages, since it consumes their OTK, not ours.
Because users OTK are never used, they can accumulate a lot.
This is a follow up to the great investigative work of @AmineI (Reference)
Source: caronc/apprise