Zoom’s Encryption Is “Not Suited for Secrets” and Has Surprising Links to China, Researchers DiscoverMeetings 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. The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encry
