After a year of security mishaps and controversies, Zoom is finally getting back to track. The company has introduced the long-awaited End-to-End encryption (E2E) on Zoom for both free and paid users which is great. Earlier, Zoom had taken a controversial stand to not offer E2E encryption to free users, but after facing privacy backlash, the company quickly backtracked. Now, you can enable End-to-End encryption on Zoom by validating your identity through a phone number. With all that said, let’s go ahead and learn about Zoom’s E2E encryption and how to enable it.
We have covered enabling Zoom’s E2E Encryption for both individual users and groups and enterprise users in different sections. We have also mentioned some notable points that you should keep in mind. Use table of content below to quickly move to the section you want.
- Notable Points on Zoom’s E2E Encryption
- Enable End-to-End Encryption on Zoom for Individuals
- Enable End-to-End Encryption on Zoom for Group
Notable Points on Zoom’s E2E Encryption
Before moving to the steps, there are a few points that you should make a note of. With E2E turned on, you won’t be able to use many of Zoom’s features such as cloud recording, streaming, live transcription, join before host and more. Also, users won’t be able to join an E2E meeting through the telephonic medium.
Lastly, as we noted in our Zoom vs Google Meet comparison, End-to-End encryption is the same GCM encryption that was deployed earlier on Zoom. However, this time, the decryption keys are generated locally on users’ computers — instead of Zoom’s servers — which was decrypting and managing the keys earlier. In tandem, the packets can only be decrypted at the receiver’s end which makes it a secure End-to-End channel.
You can enable End-to-End encryption on Zoom only through the web portal. So first off, open the Settings page of Zoom and move to the “Meeting” tab.
It will then ask for your phone number. Enter it and click on “Send Verification Code”.
Open Zoom’s Settings page by clicking on the link and move to Account Management -> Account Settings.
Next, choose “End-to-End encryption” as the default encryption type and click on “Save”.
So that is how you can enable End-to-End encryption on Zoom and make your web meetings secure from all kinds of security attacks. As the feature is in Technical Preview, many essential features are not available and that is understandable. So I would suggest you that use E2E encryption only when the meeting is extremely confidential. To get all the features, you will have to wait for quite some time. Anyway, that is all from us. You can learn more such Zoom tips and tricks from our linked article.
