BlackBerry Giving Encryption Keys to Indian Government.
RIM encrypts e-mail between BlackBerry devices and the server the server with 236-bit AES encryption. The Indian government doesn’t like this at all; they want to snoop on the data. RIM’s response was basically: that’s not possible. The Indian government’s counter was: Then we’ll ban BlackBerries. After months of threats, it looks like RIM is giving in to Indian demands and handing over the encryption keys.
This means that the “encryption” is just a worthless marketing gimmick anyway. If it wasn’t, it would be impossible for RIM to compromise it because they wouldn’t have the keys to hand over.
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