Security News > 2020 > June > Zoom plans stronger encryption on video meetings for these customers
Schools, paying customers and potentially high-risk users could be offered stronger encryption for video meetings under new plans being explored by Zoom.
Zoom is reported to be planning to strengthen its encryption for paying customers and other institutions such as schools.
This has led to incidents in which uninvited guests have crashed Zoom video meetings to share illegal or offensive material, often dubbed "Zoom-bombing".
Stamos noted that these plans were subject to change, with a Zoom spokesperson telling TechRepublic: "Zoom's approach to end-to-end encryption is very much a work in progress - everything from our draft cryptographic design, which was just published last week, to our continued discussions around which customers it would apply to."
At the same time, Zoom has pushed out a series of updates to patch the cracks in its security architecture, including the arrival of AES 256-bit GCM encryption for video meetings in Zoom 5.0, and more comprehensive security controls for meeting admins and hosts.