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Re: [perpass] India posed to require cleartext, cleartext retention, cipher and backdoor mandates

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 21 September 2015 17:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] India posed to require cleartext, cleartext retention, cipher and backdoor mandates
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Sheesh, there is so much wrong in that document. And they
top it off by recommending RC4.

Does anyone know if this is a policy that is likely to be
enforced or one that'd be more honoured in the breach?

S.

On 21/09/15 17:45, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
> Obviously, of relevance to those that will be at the IAB MARNEW
> workshop this week (although this isn't in any way specific to radio
> networks).
> 
> * Everyone (all individuals and businesses) using encryption must
> store unencrypted content for 90 days
> * Government will dictate algorithms and key sizes
> * Possibility of a legally mandated backdoor
> 
> Article from Daily Dot:
> http://www.dailydot.com/politics/india-encryption-backdoors-draft-policy/
> 
> Text of the proposal (comments due 16 Oct.):
> https://info.publicintelligence.net/IN-DraftEncryptionPolicy.pdf
> 
>

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