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According to former Facebook's CSO Alex Stamos (who's now consulting for Zoom), they plan to add end to end encryption for all paid users:

“The truth is that what Zoom wants to do with end-to-end encryption, nobody’s really done, so there’s no product that you could just slap onto Zoom to turn it into key encryption. That’s going to have to be thought out from the beginning for the specific needs of an enterprise,” Stamos told TechCrunch.

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’t be able to encrypt someone calling in, for instance.

As for folks who may be worried about Keybase being owned by Zoom, Stamos says, “The whole point of the Keybase design is that you don’t have to trust who owns their servers.”

from techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/zoom-con...

I'm personally lukewarm about Keybase (the company) due to some choices they made in the past:

the intrusive behavior, and harassment even, has only escalated. and then, of course, keybase adds cryptocurrency to the equation, which only drew in more strangers with unsavory social behaviors.

from jenngineering.glitch.me/hello-worl...