Zoom Adopts NIST-Approved Post-Quantum End-to-End Encryption for Meetings
May 22, 2024
Encryption / Quantum Computing
Popular enterprise services provider Zoom has announced the rollout of post-quantum end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Zoom Meetings, with support for Zoom Phone and Zoom Rooms coming in the future. "As adversarial threats become more sophisticated, so does the need to safeguard user data," the company said in a statement. "With the launch of post-quantum E2EE, we are doubling down on security and providing leading-edge features for users to help protect their data." Zoom's post-quantum E2EE uses Kyber-768 , which aims at security roughly equivalent to AES-192. Kyber was chosen by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in July 2022 as the quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithm for general encryption. However, for post-quantum E2EE to be enabled by default, it requires all meeting participants to be on Zoom desktop or mobile app version 6.0.10 or higher. In the e...
