Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
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Re: Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
#2See point 2: LEVEL OF ENCRYPTION
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.
Re: Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
#3I wonder how this could impact the Indian IT outsourcing industry. Will customers be happy to have the Indian government being able to peek into everything they do from India?
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#4This is an absolutely terrible idea.
20 years ago people where hailing the Internet as a bastion of freedom and espousing how it would liberate people around the world, it was supposed to be the death knell of censorship.
Sadly it seems more likely that it will be used to reduce the freedoms and liberties of all men across all nations, unless we stand firm in our convictions and remain unafraid to raise our voices in protest.
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#5ssh-keygen (from OpenSSH) doesn't even let you create keys that short-- 768 bits and the default is 2048 bits for RSA keys, according to the man page.
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#6This reminds me of ~10 years ago, when downloading Linux distros, they came in “US” and “non-US” flavours. I vaguely remember this having to do with “exporting” crypto from the US. I guess something has changed since I no longer see this, but I would love if someone could shed some light on that piece of Internet history.
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#7This is an absolutely terrible idea. 20 years ago people where hailing the Internet as a bastion of freedom and espousing how it would liberate people around the world, it was supposed to be the death knell of censorship. Sadly it seems more likely that it will be used to reduce the freedoms and liberties of all men across all nations, unless we stand firm in our convictions and remain unafraid to raise our voices in…
"20 years ago people where hailing the Internet as a bastion of freedom and espousing how it would liberate people around the world, it was supposed to be the death knell of censorship."
But it still is. Now more than ever. It's toppled regimes, unmasked government secrets. If authorities try to take away what has once been given to the people, there will be protests.
Re: Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
#840 bit key length for RSA is just trolls. 768 bit keys have already been cracked, so you could probably crack these with a calculator.
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#9Horrible idea. Can anyone explain what is motivating the Indian government to require such access? We all basically know what the deal is with China and certain oppressive regimes in the middle east, but India is an actual democracy (maybe with a somewhat high level of corruption.)
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#10It wouldn't work and they would be even deeper in corruption and legal system inefficiency.
I guess they want just that, stupid humans.