How to Turn on Ring’s New End-to-End Encryption – Lifehacker

Ring just added end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to a select number of its smarthome cameras, protecting videos recorded by your Ring devices with an extra layer of security. This still doesnt make us thrilled about Ring devices, exactly, given all the issuesthe platformhas experienced, but its a feature worth knowing about if youre already using a Ring doorbell or camera.

Ring videos are encrypted while theyre uploaded to Rings cloud servers, but this new feature secures them with an additional AES 128-bit encryption layer that can only be decrypted and watched on a mobile device enrolled in Rings E2EE program. (You can read more about Rings E2EE policy in a recently published white paper on the feature.)

E2EE can stop outsiders from intercepting and viewing videos while theyre being recorded or sent to your devices; not even Ring will be able to decrypt them. However, Rings E2EE also disables a handful of features on a users end, including motion verification and the ability to watch Ring camera live feeds on an Amazon Echo Show or Fire TV device. Your recorded videos will be more secure, but youll lose out on real-time viewing and cloud-based monitoring features that may be as important as the extra encryption layer E2EE adds.

If youre cool with the tradeoffs, turning on Rings new E2EE is easyas long as you have the right hardware. E2EE is only available on a handful of devices at launch:

Further support may be added in the future, but for now, youll need one of those devices to use E2EE. Youll also need the latest version of the Ring app on any Android or iOS device you want to enroll. If you meet those requirements, you can turn on E2EE in the Ring app:

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Youll be asked to generate a password during setupdont lose this! It cannot be recovered and any encrypted videos you have will be lost. Youll have to start over with another mobile device to use E2EE again.

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