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Discord , one of the big group chat apps in the world , annunciate on Tuesday that audio and picture calls inside the platform will now be destruction - to - end encipher ( E2EE ) , meaning even Discord wo n’t know what users in those conversation talk about .
In the last 10 old age , end - to - end encrypt chat went from being a uncommon exception — think Skype in the mid-2000s — to a technology used by the world ’s most popular Old World chat apps , such as iMessage , WhatsApp , Signal , and Facebook Messenger , among others . Discord was suffer as a mathematical group chat weapons platform for gamers , with an stress on audio calls for users playing online game together , but also became popular with people who just want a place where a large bit of people can interact .
Discord , whichclaims to have 200 million monthly users , announcedlast yearthat it was working on bringing end - to - end encryption to its platform , starting with audio and video calls , say that “ at any devote present moment ” millions of people are talking via calls on Discord . Now , the society is rolling out the engineering .
“ Today , we ’ll start migrate vocalization and video in DMs , Group DMs , voice line , and Go Live stream to use E2EE . You will be able to affirm when Call are end - to - ending encipher and do verification of other members in those call , ” Stephen Birarda , Discord ’s staff software locomotive engineer on audio / picture infrastructure , indite in a blog postannouncing the rollout , as well as explaining technical details of the technology Discord is implementing .
Birarda say that private messages , on the other hand , will not be terminate - to - end encrypted .
“ safety machine is intertwine with our product and policies . While audio and video will be end - to - last encrypted , substance on Discord will continue to fall out ourcontent moderationapproach and are not last - to - remainder cypher , ” write Birarda .
Discord spokesperson Kellyn Slone told TechCrunch that the company has “ no further plans at this time ” to flap out encryption in other area , such as lineal messages or group confabulation .
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Birarda announced that the party is releasinga paperabout its encryption protocol , which he sound out was review by the cybersecurity consulting firm Trail of Bits , as well asopen sourcingthe code .
