Discord is introducing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for audio and video calls on its platform, enhancing security across direct messages (DMs), group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams. The update is already available on desktop and mobile clients, with plans to extend it to other clients next year.
“Today, we’ll start migrating voice and video in DMs, Group DMs, voice channels, and Go Live streams to use E2EE,” the platform’s staff software engineer Stephen Birarda said in a recently published blog post on Discord’s website. “You will be able to confirm when calls are end-to-end encrypted and perform verification of other members in those calls.”
The platform provided detailed information as well as outlined its goals for its E2EE implementation on a recently published blog post, emphasising transparency in how the protocols work. It notes that encryption will not compromise the quality of audio or video calls.
Discord added that text-based messages will not be included under the encryption protocols. This decision enables it to continue enforcing content moderation, ensuring that its community standards are upheld.
The platform first announced its plans to implement E2EE last year. Over the past decade, encryption has evolved from being a rare feature to a standard technology used by the world’s most popular chat apps, including iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger, among others.
(Source: Discord [official blog])
