{"id":3729,"date":"2020-04-04T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2020-04-04T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:52:58","slug":"zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/2020\/04\/04\/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover\/","title":{"rendered":"SSI PDT VISIO &#8211; Zoom\u2019s Encryption Is \u201cNot Suited for Secrets\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"reader-title wp-block-heading\">Zoom\u2019s Encryption Is \u201cNot Suited for Secrets\u201d and Has Surprising Links to China, Researchers Discover<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/werle.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image7.png?resize=512%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/werle.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image7.png?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/werle.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image7.png?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Micah Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>micah.lee@theintercept.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@micahflee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9-11&nbsp;minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North America, according to researchers at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability in Zoom\u2019s \u201cwaiting room\u201d feature, and that Zoom appears to have at least 700 employees in China spread across three subsidiaries. They conclude, <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/2020\/04\/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings\/\">in a report for the university\u2019s Citizen Lab<\/a> \u2014 widely followed in information security circles \u2014 that Zoom\u2019s service is \u201cnot suited for secrets\u201d and that it may be legally obligated to disclose encryption keys to Chinese authorities and \u201cresponsive to pressure\u201d from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/werle.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zoom-enc-540x509.jpg?resize=540%2C509&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/werle.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zoom-enc-540x509.jpg?resize=540%2C509&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/werle.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zoom-enc-540x509.jpg?resize=200%2C189&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/werle.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/zoom-enc-540x509.jpg?resize=512%2C483&amp;ssl=1 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoom could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/04\/03\/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover\/\">https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/04\/03\/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom\u2019s Encryption Is \u201cNot Suited for Secrets\u201d and Has Surprising Links to China, Researchers Discover Micah Lee micah.lee@theintercept.com @micahflee 9-11&nbsp;minutes Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North &#8230; <a title=\"SSI PDT VISIO &#8211; Zoom\u2019s Encryption Is \u201cNot Suited for Secrets\u201d\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/2020\/04\/04\/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about SSI PDT VISIO &#8211; Zoom\u2019s Encryption Is \u201cNot Suited for Secrets\u201d\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ALXt-Y9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}