RIM Agrees To Hand Over Its Encryption Keys To India 164
An anonymous reader writes "BlackBerry maker Research in Motion's (RIM) four-year standoff with the Indian government over providing encryption keys for its secure corporate emails and popular messenger services is finally set to end. RIM recently demonstrated a solution that can intercept messages and emails exchanged between BlackBerry handsets, and make these encrypted communications available in a readable format to Indian security agencies. An amicable solution over the monitoring issue is important for the Canadian smartphone maker since India is one of the few bright spots for the company that has been battling falling sales in its primary markets of the US and Europe. In India, RIM has tripled its customer base close to 5 million over the last two years,"
Nothing like giving in... (Score:4, Funny)
... to a democratically elected government...
It's OK... (Score:5, Funny)
Half the country has been unable to recharge their Blackberries for two days in a row anyway.
Re:But this is India we are talking about (Score:4, Funny)
Encryption is crackable
True, encryption _CAN_ be cracked, by hook or by crook
Are you talking about this [xkcd.com] form of cracking? Because, with a sufficiently long secret key, it is proven [wikipedia.org] impossible to break.
I like using long period [hiroshima-u.ac.jp] PRNGs to make an effective one-time pad. How you initialize the PRNG is your key.
Re:Nothing like giving in... (Score:4, Funny)
Sargasm. When your joke makes you laugh a little too hard.