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

I'm not so sure we should take comfort in their withdrawal of the policy as
all reports are that they are revising and reissuing... We'll see what the
next iteration involves!

On Tuesday, September 22, 2015, Dan York <york@isoc.org> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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