Discord, which many of us use for both business and entertainment purposes and where we spend many hours of our day. Implements end-to-end encrypted voice and video chat functionalityTo summarize this development briefly, it means that, just like with WhatsApp, even Discord will no longer have access to users’ conversations on Discord.

In recent years, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) technology has been widely adopted by popular applications such as iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, and Messenger. Discord, on the other hand, was initially born as a platform that aimed to provide voice chat between users playing online games, but over time, it has become a platform where a wide variety of groups of people can come together and communicate with each other.

Discord, which currently has 200 million monthly users, announced last year that it would be integrating end-to-end encryption into its platform. Similarly, the company stated that with this announcement, millions of people were chatting on Discord immediately.

What areas does Discord’s end-to-end encryption cover?

Today, Discord began offering this technology to its users. Stephen Birarda, a software engineer responsible for Discord’s audio and video infrastructure, said: “Today we begin migrating group DMs and voice channels to use end-to-end encryption.” made the statement. Birarda stated that users will have the ability to verify that voice chats are end-to-end encrypted.

The real important point here is that private messages are not encrypted. With the statement that he made, he announced that private messages will not be end-to-end encrypted and this situation “Security is woven into our product and policies. While audio and video will be end-to-end encrypted, private messages on Discord remain within our content moderation approach and will not be end-to-end encrypted.” He summed it up with the following expressions. Finally, the company will publish a paper about the encryption protocol that has been reviewed by cybersecurity consultancy Trail of Bits. They will share this protocol as open source announced.

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