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

Dan York <york@isoc.org> Tue, 22 September 2015 09:57 UTC

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Subject: [perpass] India withdraws encryption policy - Re: India posed to require cleartext, cleartext retention, cipher and backdoor mandates
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There was a significant amount of public outcry yesterday within India and the latest news is that the government of India is apparently withdrawing the draft policy:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Government-withdraws-draft-of-encryption-policy/articleshow/49057232.cms

Prior to that the government agency involved had already issued an update saying that the draft policy would NOT apply to TLS in web commerce and social media, messaging, etc.  The update document seems to have been removed, but is captured here by a news site:

http://www.medianama.com/2015/09/223-india-draft-encryption-policy/

Dan

On Sep 21, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie<mailto:stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>> wrote:


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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