Indian Government Plans To Ban Blackberry Messenger Service

The Indian government on Wednesday warned that if the Canadian company does not come out with some 'technical solution'to allow the government to have access to encrypted private communication , the users will have to face blocking of their 'BlackBerry-to-BlackBerry messenger' service even though they would be able to continue with its voice and email services.

Research in Motion (RIM) has expressed its "inability" to provide access to security agencies to intercept its messenger service by stating that the security architecture for its enterprise customers is based on a symmetric key system whereby the customers create their own key and only they possess the copy of the encryption. "RIM does not possess a master key nor does any backdoor exist in the system that would allow RIM or any third party to gain an unauthorised access to the key or corporate data," it had said.

"We told the service providers in categorical terms that the government will allow them to offer those services which could be intercepted by the security agencies. If any service is not allowed to be intercepted, we will not allow them to run such services," sources said.

Unless RIM can work out a solution which will be analysed by security experts, the government will ban Blackberry Messenger services in India. 

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