Zoom comes with end-to-end encryption

Video conferencing app Zoom is about to add end-to-end encryption in four stages. Initially, it is a technical test to get feedback from users. This test period lasts 30 days, after which three more types of tests will follow before this encryption is officially launched.

It’s good that this option is finally coming and for everyone, because earlier this year, Zoom planned to provide end-to-end encryption only to paying customers. Privacy activists put a stop to this, however. This encryption should be at the heart of security. In the end, Zoom agreed, even though it also wanted to use the option to separate malicious use of the service from the rest.

What the people with a free account on Zoom have to do to use end-to-end encryption, that is to verify their account once. Chances are that you will also have to leave some more information about yourself, such as your telephone number. How that process works is still unknown.

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The encryption is created by Zoom’s servers, which handle the issue of encryption keys. The meeting host generates these ‘keys’ and then public key cryptography is used to deliver a key to each person in the meeting. Zoom has no knowledge or access to the keys required to decrypt a video chat conversation. These are stored locally on your system.

Are you a Zoom user and curious about the rollout of end-to-end encryption? You can see from a green shield at the top left whether you are indeed in a call that has end to end encryption. The participants also get to see the security code so that they can verify that they are in the right place, he writes Venturebeat.

Zoom also comes with a new integrated platform for classes and a new Zapps platform that allows third-party apps to be used directly in the video call.

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