Re:Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys th...
by red_admiral on Saturday April 04, 2020 @07:56AM
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This is a really well written post that makes some valuable arguments.
For me, the main reason using ECB makes me distrust a service is that it could be a canary for "we don't have anyone who understands security working here", and it increases my prior that they're also doing other dumb things like reusing keys, or not securely distributing them in the first place.
Lack of end-to-end is bad, but in a situation with more than two participants it's not an easy problem and when some of them are dialing in from landlines then one of your endpoints has to have a key anyway, unless I'm missing something? [edit - was addressed in first paragraph]
For me, the main reason using ECB makes me distrust a service is that it could be a canary for "we don't have anyone who understands security working here", and it increases my prior that they're also doing other dumb things like reusing keys, or not securely distributing them in the first place.
Lack of end-to-end is bad, but in a situation with more than two participants it's not an easy problem and when some of them are dialing in from landlines then one of your endpoints has to have a key anyway, unless I'm missing something? [edit - was addressed in first paragraph]