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We can not give authorities access to BlackBerry messages because the keys used for encryption in the hands of the owners. That suggests Research in Motion in an official response to the overt threat of India, it is close as his security can not access the BlackBerry traffic.

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India is the latest in a list of countries that Research in Motion puts pressure from dissatisfaction with the fact that they do not understand the message traffic between owners of BlackBerrys. Previously suggested the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia that requirement.

In an official response to the Indian ultimatum RIM claims that it wants to establish cooperative with reasonable requests from governments. But at the same time it allows customers comfortable with the formulation of four principles to which it adheres in cooperation with governments:

1. access will be possible within the legal framework and the provisions of the security of the country in question is granted;
2. Measures to gain access to supplier-neutral, may not heavier inspections or more measures apply than other comparable services for the BlackBerry;
3. RIM will make no change in the security architecture that worldwide for its BlackBerry Enterprise Server has been implemented, which implies that the keys of his customers are safe: RIM’s current intent not even able to find out about;
4. RIM does not separate deals to provide.

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contain These principles are nothing new; she had spoken earlier RIM. However, the emphasis on the impossibility of decryption remarkable. RIM refutes hence so many words (“Contrary to any rumors”) that the messages of its customers can decipher.

The claim that RIM does not have the keys needed to decrypt communication would in fact not security experts. The well-known expert Bruce Schneier argues that the encryption is performed by RIM, and that can only happen if RIM also has access to the plaintext. In a further analysis, Jonathan Zittrain to the conclusion that RIM’s assertion may be true, but only for communication between employees of the same company. RIM’s response contains no substantive arguments that the theorems of Schneier and Zittrain disprove.

The hardness of the fourth principle is also severely drawn by experts in doubt. Analysts wonder aloud how RIM has been allowed to operate in Russia and China as the authorities there no method has provided to access the correspondence between BlackBerrys. Access permission China is not known for his love of freedom of expression. And in an article in Forbes even, says author Jeffrey Carr that accessibility of communications for the security service in Russia a legal prerequisite for the provision of telecommunications equipment.

America has always highly valued and effort into the monitoring of communications, as became clear early this century by the commotion on the Echelon surveillance network. That U.S. security would have to BlackBerry conversations, no access to many commentators would also not.

RIM’s requirement that measures be vendor neutral, incidentally also gives fewer guarantees than it seems. In India has been openly discussed similar measures against Skype and Google’s Gmail, reports the Financial Times.

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