Zoom Announces the Availability of End-to-End Encryption Offering – Enterprise Security Mag

Zooms first priority is the trust and safety of its users, and our implementation of E2EE will allow us to continue to enhance safety on our platform.

FREMONT, CA: Zoom announces the availability of its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) offering as a technical preview, proactively compiling feedback from users for the first 30 days. Zoom users - free and paid -around the globe can host up to 200 participants in an E2EE meeting on Zoom, delivering increased privacy and security for Zoom sessions.

In May, Zoom announced its plans to build an end-to-end-encrypted meeting option into its platform, on top of Zooms already strong encryption and advanced security features. The company is pleased to roll out Phase 1 of 4 of its E2EE offering, which offers robust protections to prevent the interception of decryption keys that could be used to monitor meeting content.

Precisely, Zooms E2EE uses the same powerful GCM encryption users get now in a Zoom meeting. The only difference is where these encryption keys live. In typical meetings, the Zoom cloud creates encryption keys and distributes them to meeting participants using Zoom apps as they join. With Zooms E2EE, the meeting host creates encryption keys and uses public-key cryptography to distribute these keys to the other meeting participants. Zooms servers become oblivious relays and never see the encryption keys needed to decrypt the meeting contents.

End-to-end encryption is another step toward making Zoom the most secure communications platform in the world. This phase of its E2EE offering delivers the same security as existing end-to-end-encrypted messaging platforms, but with the video quality and scale that has made Zoom the communications solution of choice of many people and the worlds largest enterprises. Zooms E2EE will be available as a technical preview next week. To use it, customers must allow E2EE meetings at the account level and opt-in to E2EE on a per-meeting basis.

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