According to the AP (which is quoting Le Monde), "French government defense experts have advised officials in France's corridors of power to stop using BlackBerry, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies."
That's a bit puzzling. My understanding is that email is encrypted from the organization's (Exchange?) server to the receiving Blackberry, and that it's not in the clear while in transit or on RIM's servers. In fact, I found this text on Blackberry's site: Private encryption keys are generated in a secure, two-way authenticated environment and are assigned to each BlackBerry device user. Each secret key is stored only in the user's secure regenerated by the user wirelessly. Data sent to the BlackBerry device is encrypted by the BlackBerry Enterprise Server using the private key retrieved from the user's mailbox. The encrypted information travels securely across the network to the device where it is decrypted with the key stored there. Data remains encrypted in transit and is never decrypted outside of the corporate firewall. Of course, we all know there are ways that keys can be leaked. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]