After a month of criticism, a promised update for Zoom has arrived, introducing stronger encryption plus resolution of a number of past issues with the platform, including “Zoombombing.”
Zoom has been most people’s choice for video conferencing during the coronavirus, but has been plagued by privacy and security issues since its boom in popularity. On Wednesday, Zoom said it’s fixed some of those issues.
The new Zoom 5.0 update, for example, introduces AES 256-bit GCM encryption, which the company sayswill offer “increased protection” of data in transit and resistance to tampering.
Previously, Zoom was misleading customers about end-to-end encryption claims. Even though Zoom says its GCM encryption upgrade is better, it’s still not claiming that it’s end-to-end encrypted.
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