Re: RIM to give in to GAK in India

[Derek Atkins]

Arshad Noor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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