Black Berry and encryption

William Muriithi william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sat Aug 14 15:02:02 UTC 2010


Morning,

I just came across this article and think its worth a read.  Its has
some more details on what its at stake  in the current battle between
governments and RIM.  For example, I just realized BB chats do not go
through the enterprise servers, which is what I had all assumed.  That
imply offering data centres in for example Saudi Arabia will not be
sufficient. It has not be explicitly mentioned, but it look the only
way to have access to that is through installing stuff in the hand
set.  So, has RIM been facilitating that all along?

The whole story kind of rule out a central organization ever providing
encryption worth trusting.  They apparently use ECC
(Elliptic_curve_cryptography) - which is petty good, but what good is
it if half of the world population can read what its apparently
encrypting.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/08/blackberrys_and_encryption


William
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