

“Our users will be able to securely communicate across all of their devices through end-to-end encryption,” chief operating officer Michael Shmilov wrote in a blog post. Get Data Sheet, Fortune ’s technology newsletter. The deployment covers all of Viber’s apps, securing text and voice chats, both one-to-one and group.

That figure is not quite WhatsApp (FB) territory with its billion-plus regular users, but it’s a sizable user base, nonetheless. Viber, a Cypriot-Israeli operation owned by Japanese web giant Rakuten (RKUNF), has roughly 250 million monthly active users and 711 million users total.
