I think it is a very old document.
I would hope so. Do you have any citation on when was this published?
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Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
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#22India will get a Darwin Award for killing it's relevance in global IT services business.
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#23This clearly indicates Govt of India acting on behalf of wested interest. This doesn't seems to be a thought about policy to the least. How can they still consider 40 bit encryption a worthy one?
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#25Horrible 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.)
Not trying to be snarky, but the USA is supposed to be the paragon of freedom and democracy, yet even its government is spying on its own citizen via the NSA. A democracy is no guarantee against a surveillance-expansionist regime, especially when a large portion of the electorate are highly uneducated and below the poverty line, as is the case in India.
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#26This document is from 2001. http://toroid.org/ams/etc/dot-india-crypto-nonsense
The linked post doesn't provide any source.
According to the internet archive, it's from 2006 http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dot.gov.in/isp/g...
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#28I love the broken images at the bottom of the page. This proposal is just one way of destroying their call centres and any Internet based transaction system they may want to develop with the outside world. You might also want to note the following: 14. The ISP should block Internet sites and individual subscribers, as identified by Telecom Authority. 15. The Government(Licensor) reserves the right to make changes in…
Actually... is this current policy? I just checked the wayback machine, and this has been there since at least 2006. See http://web.archive.org/web/20060222081026/http://www.dot.gov...
Is this really still in effect?
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#29Horrible 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.)
The idiots in our government are jealous of China & have identified censorship & suppression of freedom as the one thing they can quickly compete with China on
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#30If encryption higher than the proposed limits are required, they want us to seek permission from authority and deposit decryption key.
Considering how corrupt and inefficient government and the officials are there, its not gonna work well or will be too frustrating and may require bribing.