Thread: Indian government: At last, we've cracked Blackberry's encryption

From a recent report it looks like they didn't managed to crack Blackberry's encryption after all.RIM in India gives police backdoor to users content for now.It has a set up a small facility in Mumbai especially for this purpose ...

Many of India's issues with BlackBerry could have been averted if the country had developed more advanced capabilities to decrypt data on its own. The Messenger service, for example, has one master key to unlock messages, and it can be discovered relatively easily with good decryption technology, according to people familiar with the matter.

Read more: RIM Facility Helps India - WSJ.com

Govt. of India proposes to ban SSH (Or restricts you to use 40 bit keys)

Read the official guidelines here >> GUIDELINES AND GENERAL INFORMATION FOR SETTING UP OF INTERNATIONAL GATEWAYS FOR INTERNET

The ramifications here >> http://www.pluggd.in/indian-govt-to-...s-and-ssh-297/
Where the hell are they getting such ideas

Originally Posted by abhaythehero

Govt. of India proposes to ban SSH (Or restricts you to use 40 bit keys)

Read the official guidelines here >> GUIDELINES AND GENERAL INFORMATION FOR SETTING UP OF INTERNATIONAL GATEWAYS FOR INTERNET

The ramifications here >> Govt of India wants to ban HTTPS and SSH? [Updated]
Where the hell are they getting such ideas

Correction guys, it is now being reported that the link was 11 years old and nobody in government ever cared to enforce it.
So far, so good