Microsoft has partnered with Signal to add end-to-Encryption to Skype. This means that all your chat, files and Audio messages will be securely transmitted through the service, and they’ll only be readable to you and the recipient. No one will be able to easily intercept them as they pass through Microsoft’s servers and parse them; much like the way Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram work.
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But, do keep in mind that this doesn’t yet cover your audio and video calls – those are only secured by the standard encryption that Microsoft already offers with this service.
The feature is currently available in the latest Skype Insider build for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS, and both users will need to have that version in order to be able to message each other privately. It would also be nice if Microsoft would enable this new feature by default, if it's gonna be included in a public release of Skye, so it’s automatically turned on for more users than if they had to find the setting themselves.
