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Files moved into an encrypted groupfolder are no longer decrypted when needed #2909

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When encryption is enabled in both the home storage and in groupfolders and an encrypted file is moved from the home storage into a groupfolder the file is no longer decrypted when needed. That is, trying to download or open the file with a viewer in Nextcloud will show the encrypted content.

During the move the file is properly decrypted and encrypted again and the keys moved. However, the problem is that the file is marked as not encrypted in the file cache. This can be verified by manually modifying the database to set encrypted = 1 in oc_filecache for the file once moved into the groupfolder and then trying to download or view the file.

The file is marked as not encrypted because the storage in the Cache object does not have an encryption wrapper; $this->storage is a OCA\Files_Trashbin\Storage that wraps a OC\Files\Storage\LocalRootStorage (so $this->hasEncryptionWrapper() returns false).

Interestingly, in the View object that triggers the move in the cache (through the cache updater) $targetStorage is a OCA\Files_Trashbin\Storage that wraps a OC\Files\Storage\Wrapper\Encryption.

I am afraid that I do not know why or how the storage used by the cache ends being a different one, but hopefully the information above is somehow useful :-)

Steps to reproduce

  • Enable the default encryption module (occ app:enable encryption)
  • Enable encryption (occ config:app:set --value=yes --type string core encryption_enabled)
    • By default the home storage will be encrypted
  • Enable encryption in groupfolders (occ config:app:set groupfolders enable_encryption --value="true")
  • Upload a file to the root directory
  • Move that file into a groupfolder
  • Download the file

Expected beaviour

The downloaded file is not encrypted

Actual behaviour

The downloaded file is encrypted

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