Keybase, which has been building encryption products for several years including secure file sharing and collaboration tools, should give Zoom some security credibility as it goes through pandemic demand growing pains. The company has faced a number of security issues in the last couple of months as demand as soared and exposed some security weaknesses in the platform... CEO Eric Yuan  said they acquired Keybase to give customers a higher level of security... “This acquisition marks a key step for Zoom  as we attempt to accomplish the creation of a truly private video communications platform that can scale to hundreds of millions of participants, while also having the flexibility to support Zoom’s wide variety of uses,” Yuan wrote.

...  “Zoom will offer an end-to-end encrypted meeting mode to all paid accounts. Logged-in users will generate public cryptographic identities that are stored in a repository on Zoom’s network and can be used to establish trust relationships between meeting attendees," [Yuan]... wrote.