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		maest on April 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit ... Was this done in the interest of convenience, as most Zoom appologists have been clamining?

api on April 3, 2020 [–]

This looks like either incompetence or intentionally weak crypto.

rzimmerman on April 3, 2020 | [–]

I agree, it's probably lack of appropriate expertise. There are much more subtle and useful ways to make this intentionally weak (like subtle nonce reuse with GCM). Or just giving Chinese authorities access to the key like the article implies.

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