Security News > 2020 > October > Zoom rolls out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) next week

Zoom announced today that it will roll out end-to-end encryption for all users starting next week, as part of a 30-day technical preview.

To start using E2EE when joining new meetings during this roll out phase, meeting participants will have to join using the Zoom desktop client, mobile app, or from Zoom Rooms.

"We're excited to announce that starting next week, Zoom's end-to-end encryption offering will be available as a technical preview, which means we're proactively soliciting feedback from users for the first 30 days," Zoom Head of Security Engineering Max Krohn said today.

All E2EE encryption keys are generated by meeting participants' machines instead of Zoom's own servers, thus making all exchanged data indecipherable by Zoom or other third parties, with the exception of each meeting participant.

"In typical meetings, Zoom's cloud generates encryption keys and distributes them to meeting participants using Zoom apps as they join," Krohn explained.

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