Black Berry and encryption

[James Knott]

William Muriithi wrote:
> The whole story kind of rule out a central organization ever providing
> encryption worth trusting.


"What about at either end of the encryption process? E-mails sent 
encrypted from a BlackBerry handset at some point have to be decrypted 
and sent to the recipient's e-mail server. That is done either by the 
"enterprise" server, for those large BlackBerry users that have them, or 
in RIM's own servers in the case of people who have their BlackBerry 
contract with a local telecoms firm."

Doesn't RIM use public/private key encryption?  If so, then the message 
can only be decrypted by the recipient and not at any server along the 
way.  Many companies have their own key servers to generate the key 
pairs, so RIM would have no access to those messages.

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