From 2d7b957d8c840aac491914e5ac8856de921483f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Grant <willmgrant@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:05:01 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] feat: closed group pubkeys cannot be used to create new
 messages

---
 ts/components/leftpane/overlay/OverlayMessage.tsx | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ts/components/leftpane/overlay/OverlayMessage.tsx b/ts/components/leftpane/overlay/OverlayMessage.tsx
index 46eaaf3ef..eff64f1e6 100644
--- a/ts/components/leftpane/overlay/OverlayMessage.tsx
+++ b/ts/components/leftpane/overlay/OverlayMessage.tsx
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ export const OverlayMessage = () => {
     }
 
     const isPubkey = PubKey.validate(pubkeyorOnsTrimmed);
-    if (isPubkey && validationError) {
+    const isGroupPubkey = PubKey.isClosedGroupV3(pubkeyorOnsTrimmed);
+    if ((isPubkey && validationError) || isGroupPubkey) {
       setPubkeyOrOnsError(validationError);
       return;
     }