Fwd: [Ilugc] Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)

[Gaurav Paliwal]

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From: Manokaran K <mano...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:01 PM
Subject: [Ilugc] Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
To: ILUG-C <il...@ae.iitm.ac.in>


Stumbled on this via Hacker news:

http://www.dot.gov.in/isp/guide_international_gateway.htm

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II. LEVEL OF ENCRYPTION

  1.

  Individuals/Groups/Organisations are permitted to use encryption upto 40
  bit key length in the RSA algorithms or its equivalent in other algorithms
  without having to obtain permission. However, if encryption equipments
  higher than this limit are to be deployed, individuals/groups/organisations
  shall do so with the permission of the Telecom Authority and deposit the
  decryption key, split into two parts, with the Telecom Authority.

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mano

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[Tavish Naruka]

http://www.dot.gov.in/isp/guide_international_gateway.htm this proposal is from 2001, don't know some blogs are picking it up now. At that time a few governments were trying to limit encryption. US was among the first http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

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[Atul jangra]

Tavish are you sure that Govt of India is not going to ban ssh and https??
I have gone through many blog posts where people have raised concern regarding this issue.


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[Tavish Naruka]

I don't think the govt wants to do it. I think his made a bit of sensational news(after someone posted this without checking date), after the govt banning websites.

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