In the ongoing saga that never seems to end, with imaginary deadlines and harsh words flying from both sides of the table... It seems the Indian Government now has an alternate proposal to meet their needs.

The Government wants to raise the minimum level of encryption from 40 to 265 bits. Why is this important? Well, it turns out the Indian Government already has the ability to decode messages at 40 bit and is working up to 256 bit encryption levels.

I think there's very little question that the Indian Government WILL start decoding messages if they get encryption levels raised.

RIM has said they will come up with a solution by the end of this month...

I've heard this all before... Anyone think this will come to a conclusion before 2009?

[ via Economic Times ]