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May 7, 2020 01:38 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/7/21250418/zoom-keybase-acquisition-encryption-security-messages-services
Zoom buys the identity service Keybase as part of 90-day security push
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Zoom has acquired Keybase, an encryption and security service meant to serve as a secure home for your online identities. The acquisition is meant to quickly add a team of security-focused developers to Zoom, which has been widely criticized in recent weeks for lapses in security inside its increasingly popular videoconferencing software. Keybase co-founder Max Krohn will now lead Zoom’s security engineering team.
The Keybase team is supposed to help Zoom build end-to-end encryption for its videoconferences “that can reach current Zoom scalability.” Zoom has been working on building true end-to-end encryption for videoconferences since coming under criticism over the last month for making its calls incorrectly appear to be fully...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/7/21250418/zoom-keybase-acquisition-encryption-security-messages-services
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