[116734] in Cypherpunks
Fwd: Key Escrow in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Clow)
Thu Aug 19 14:19:15 1999
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:51:10 -0700
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From: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
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INDIA PERMITS PRIVATE GATEWAYS, WITH STRINGS ATTACHED
By Uday Lal Pai InternetNews India Correspondent (July 26, 1999)
The government of India has finalized guidelines for setting up
of private international Internet gateways by Internet Service
Providers (ISPs). This breaks Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited's
(VSNL) monopoly on Internet gateway services.
In the absence of security guidelines, ISPs could not establish
their gateways and were hence, forced to lease capacities from
VSNL. Now, it is mandatory for the private gateway providers to
connect all routers above 2 Mbps with monitoring facilities of
national security agencies such as the Intelligence Bureau (IB)
and RAW. The permission is not required for use of encryption up
to 40-bit key length. For stronger encryption, the de-cryption
key split into two parts is to be deposited with the telecom
authority.
Soon after the ISP policy was announced by the government in
November last year, several ISPs including Satyam Infoway,
Bharti-BT, Global Electronic Commerce Services and Mahanagar
Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) contacted DoT expressing interest
in setting up their own gateways.
http://asia.internet.com/1999/7/2602-india.html
-- Marshall
Marshall Clow Adobe Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu>
Freedom isn't being able to do what you like, it's allowing someone else
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