Popular messaging and chat platform Discord has announced it will be rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for its audio and video calls. It will offer encryption in direct messages (DMs), Group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams. The social media platform currently boasts more than 200 million monthly users, and the E2EE ensures that even Discord won’t know what specific users in a conversation are talking about.
In a new blog post, Discord announced that its new Dave protocol follows five key goals: privacy, open and effective protocol, broad platform support, transparency, and scalability. The end-to-end encryption protocol is used by other popular chat apps as well, such as iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, and more.
Discord has also assured that its media encryption keys are changed every time a user leaves a call, and the previous chats or calls can’t be traced or accessed by an intruder. The implementation of E2EE on Discord was announced by Stephen Birarda, a software engineer of Discord.
The messaging platform has also stated that the low latency of voice and video calls will not be compromised with this adaption. The E2EE protocol will become the default for voice and video in DMs, Group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams.
Discord has also published its whitepaper and the libraries its clients use to implement the DAVE protocol. This encryption protocol has also been reviewed by the cybersecurity consulting firm Trail of Bits.
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