{"id":18548,"date":"2020-05-09T01:50:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/zoom-consultant-alex-stamos-weighs-in-on-keybase-acquisition.html"},"modified":"2020-05-09T01:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:50:55","slug":"zoom-consultant-alex-stamos-weighs-in-on-keybase-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/zoom-consultant-alex-stamos-weighs-in-on-keybase-acquisition.html","title":{"rendered":"Zoom consultant Alex Stamos weighs in on Keybase acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Zoom <\/a> started having security issues in March<\/a>, they turned to former Facebook and Yahoo! Security executive Alex Stamos, who signed on as a consultant to work directly with CEO Eric Yuan.<\/p>\n

The goal was to build a more cohesive security strategy for the fast-growing company. One of the recommendations that came out of those meetings was building end-to-end encryption into the paid tier of the product. Those discussions led to the company buying Keybase<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n

Stamos says in the big build versus buy debate that companies tend to go through when they are evaluating options, this fell somewhere in the middle. While they bought a company with a lot of expertise, it will still require Keybase <\/a> engineers working with counterparts from Zoom and consultants like Stamos to build a final encrypted product.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that what Zoom wants to do with end-to-end encryption, nobody\u2019s really done, so there\u2019s no product that you could just slap onto Zoom to turn it into key encryption. That\u2019s going to have to be thought out from the beginning for the specific needs of an enterprise,\u201d Stamos told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

But what they liked about Keybase in particular is that they have already thought through similar problems with file encryption and encrypted chat, and they want to turn the Keybase engineers loose on this problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe design is going to be something that\u2019s totally new. The great thing about Keybase is that they have already been through this process of thinking through and then crafting a design that is usable by normal people and that provides functionality while being somewhat invisible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s a work in progress, it\u2019s not possible to say when that final integration will happen, but Stamos did say that the company intends to publish a paper on May 22nd outlining its cryptographic plan moving forward, and then will have a period of public discussion before finalizing the design and moving into the integration phase.<\/p>\n

He says that the first goal is to come up with a more highly secure version of Zoom meetings with end-to-end encryption enabled. At least initially, this will only be available for people using the Zoom client or Zoom-enabled hardware. You won\u2019t be able to encrypt someone calling in, for instance.<\/p>\n

As for folks who may be worried about Keybase being owned by Zoom, Stamos says, \u201cThe whole point of the Keybase design is that you don\u2019t have to trust who owns their servers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zoom acquires Keybase to get end-to-end encryption expertise<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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