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Re: RIM to give in to GAK in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri May 30 13:32:57 2008
To: Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <10882037.481211989985716.JavaMail.root@gw.noorhome.net> (Arshad Noor's message of "Wed\, 28 May 2008 11\:53\:05 -0400 \(EDT\)")
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:05:17 -0400
Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com> writes:
> Even if RIM does not have the device keys, in order to share encrypted
> data with applications on the RIM server, the device must share a session
> key with the server; must it not?. Isn't RIM (their software, actually)
> now in a position to decrypt content sent between Blackberry users? Or,
> does the Blackberry encryption protocol work like S/MIME?
The enterprise solution does work something like S/MIME.
-derek
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