Signal Partners with Microsoft to Bring End-to-End Encryption to Skype

[Megalith]

Microsoft is finally bringing end-to-end encryption to Skype under a partnership with secure-messaging app Signal. While the feature does not cover video and audio calls yet, chat, files, and audio messages will be securely transmitted through the service in the latest Insider build.

At Signal, our goal is to make private communication simple and ubiquitous. With hundreds of millions of active users, Skype is one of the most popular applications in the world, and we’re excited that Private Conversations in Skype will allow more users to take advantage of Signal Protocol’s strong encryption properties for secure communication.

 

[viper1152012]

Wonder if that puts cortana into a privacy mode?
You eaves dropping little.....etc

 

[velusip]

Not exactly a good choice, but it is still an extremely overdue feature for skype. Even so, sus af.

 

[MrGuvernment]

Um, i thought Skype was already end to end encrypted....wtf

 

[Uvaman2]

I guess they worked out the backdoors already.

 

[steakman1971]

I'm wondering why this would be so difficult? End to end would use https. That's easy to do via code. Back-end could be tightened down. Since I have no idea what their server code consists of (but can speculate easy enough), seems like this would not be so hard. Just encrypt your database records, remove log messages that have personal information (this is a big issue in the tech world as QA doesn't look and developers forget they have it in place), ... profit.

 

[DPI]

Um, i thought Skype was already end to end encrypted....wtf

I thought Skype was just at the end.