Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready

Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready

The world’s plague-time video meeting tool of choice, Zoom, says it’s figured out how to do end-to-end encryption sufficiently well to offer users a tech preview.


News of the trial comes after April 2020 awkwardness that followed the revelation that Zoom was fibbing about its service using end-to-end encryption.


As we reported at the time, Zoom ‘fessed up but brushed aside criticism with a semantic argument about what "end-to-end" means.


“When we use the phrase ‘End-to-end’ in our other literature, it is in reference to the connection being encrypted from Zoom end point to Zoom end point,” the company said. The commonly accepted definition of end-to-end encryption requires even the host of a service to be unable to access the content of a communica ..

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