The government has said that it will insist on Research In Motion (RIM) providing an interception solution for its enterprise mail service, according to news reports. RIM had been given time until January 31, 2011, but it is believed that this deadline may be extended by another fortnight or a month.
Prior to this, RIM had said that it had provided a solution to access its BlackBerry Messenger service prior to the January 31, 2011 deadline. The company, however, reiterated that no changes can be made to the security system for corporate emails.
In a customer update, RIM said the solution it had provided would enable operators to meet access-related requirements for consumer messaging services, including BlackBerry Messenger and BlackBerry Internet Service and that the solution met the standard required by the Indian government. It did, however, stand firm in its stance that the same cannot be provided for corporate emails.
RIM uses powerful codes to scramble, or encrypt, email messages as they travel between a BlackBerry device and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
The company added that it did not have a master key to decode these emails and only the sponsoring business or organisation has the technical capability to grant access to encrypted enterprise email.
