
Currently I wouldn’t recommend Zoom for very sensitive meetings or chats, but with end-to-end encryption that could change. Hopefully Zoom will bring end-to-end encryption to the entire user base, including free users.

Your message will appear in the chat window indicated by a (Direct Message) notification above the message. Press Enter to send your private message. In the To: drop-down menu, select the participant you want to chat with directly. “In fact it brings it back up in line with other more security and privacy focused companies.”Ī bold move by Zoom, and it perhaps its most significant so far. While in a meeting, click Chat in the meeting controls. If you receive new chat messages while screen sharing, a red icon will appear next to Chat indicating the amount of unread messages. A floating chat window will appear, which is not visible to other meeting participants. "Zoom's privacy updates have certainly been of interest lately and this new add on is by no means a small one,” says Jake Moore, cybersecurity specialist at ESET. While screen sharing in a meeting, click Chat in the meeting controls toolbar. “Sometimes it's easier to buy your way out of a security problem.” MORE FROM FORBES Zoom's 200 Million Users Are Facing A Serious New Threat By Kate O'Flaherty Secure, end-to-end encryption protects the contents of your messages and files Keybase security was independently reviewed in 2018/2019 Clients for Android.

“If Zoom basically can take Keybase's architecture and encryption technology and quickly implements it, it's a huge win,” says Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO at Cyjax.

Now Zoom is buying Keybase, it can brush off blows from rivals Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, which have both been trying to capitalize on Zoom’s security misfortunes.
IN ZOOM KEYBASE KEPT CHAT FROM UPDATE
Previously, Zoom was using an inferior type of encryption using 128-bit AES keys, however, Zoom’s 5.0 update added support for industry-standard AES- GCM with 256-bit keys.
