Security News > 2020 > October > All Zoom users get end-to-end encryption (E2EE) option next week

Starting next week, Zoom users - both those who are on one of the paid plans and those who use it for free - will be able to try out the solution's new end-to-end encryption option.

Must join from the Zoom desktop client, mobile app, or Zoom Rooms.

Must enable the E2EE option at the account level and then for each meeting they want to use E2EE for.

"Zoom's E2EE uses the same powerful GCM encryption you get now in a Zoom meeting. The only difference is where those encryption keys live," the company explained.

"In typical meetings, Zoom's cloud generates encryption keys and distributes them to meeting participants using Zoom apps as they join. With Zoom's E2EE, the meeting's host generates encryption keys and uses public key cryptography to distribute these keys to the other meeting participants. Zoom's servers become oblivious relays and never see the encryption keys required to decrypt the meeting contents."

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