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Per its terms and conditions, YOU Broadband, the fifth largest Indian internet service provider (ISP), doesn\u2019t let its subscribers use strong encryption. The ISP does technically allow VPN and encryption use\u2026 but only \u201cup to the bit length permitted by the Department of Telecommunications,\u201d which is 40 bits. It was over twenty years ago in 1997 that Ian Goldberg won $1,000 from RSA for breaking 40 bit encryption in just a few hours. He famously said<\/a> then:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the final proof of what we\u2019ve known for years: 40-bit encryption technology is obsolete.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet YOU Broadband, and other Indian ISPs, still insist that their users can\u2019t use anything stronger than a twenty-year-broken key size. That\u2019s not viable security in the 21st century, and makes you wonder why encryption is discouraged in the first place. Nowadays, because 40 bit encryption has long been shown to be obsolete, the minimum standard is usually at least a 128 bit encryption key size.<\/p>\n

Indian ISP, YOU Broadband, doesn\u2019t want you to use encryption because it hampers their logging<\/h2>\n

Earlier this week,\u00a0redditor\u00a0<\/a>bf_of_chitti_robot<\/a>\u00a0pointed out in the \/r\/India subreddit that Clause 38 of YOU Broadband\u2019s Terms and Conditions clearly set out the company\u2019s stance on encryption, as well as explaining why the company wanted such a rule.<\/p>\n

YOU Broadband Terms and Conditions Clause 38 (June 2016 Internet Archive snapshot<\/a>):<\/p>\n

The Customer shall not take any steps including adopting any encryption system that prevents or in any way hinders the Company from maintaining a log of the Customer or maintaining or having access to copies of all packages\/data originating from the Customer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ISP\u2019s stated intentions of maintaining customer logs and ensuring that they have access to copies of all your packages\/data are, of course, mandated by law under the Information Technology Act. After the clause was pointed out, YOU Broadband quickly updated Clause 38 of their user policy to simply state:<\/p>\n

The Customer may use VPN and encryption up to the bit length permitted by the Department of Telecommunications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Needless to say, nothing has changed about their intentions \u2013 making sure you aren\u2019t using strong encryption because it gets in the way of their snooping. This is the same snooping that ISPs in America, like AT&T<\/a>, are able to exploit now that internet privacy rules<\/a> have been relaxed in the states (but not all states). Nosy ISPs seem to be an international problem.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s Department of Telecommunications only allows up to 40 bit encryption, which is insecure<\/h2>\n

What is the bit length permitted by the Department of Telecommunications, anyways? According to a 2002 note on ISP regulation by the Department of Telecommunications, the encryption key length hard limit is\u00a040 bits<\/a>\u00a0for internet service licensees aka internet service providers.<\/p>\n

Internet service licensees, such as YOU Broadband, have an obligation to the licensor, the Department of Telecommunications, to forbid individuals, groups, and organizations from using encryption with keys stronger than 40 bits without permission. Instead of asking the regulators for this permission to allow its users to actually utilize viable encryption key lengths without violating the user policy, YOU Broadband has elected to pass on the 15 year old rule on encryption \u2013 essentially making the use of encryption online against the rules of the ISP and a potential reason to lose service. Under the current and previous iterations of the user policy, YOU Broadband subscribers are technically breaking the ISP\u2019s rules every time they access https:\/\/www.google.co.in.<\/p>\n

Secure encryption is a necessity in today\u2019s online world \u2013 and an ISP that explicitly forbids it needs to be pointed out. What would you do if your ISP said that you shouldn\u2019t use meaningful encryption? What do you do when your government\u2019s laws are outdated and don\u2019t protect your privacy<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Per its terms and conditions, YOU Broadband, the fifth largest Indian internet service provider (ISP), doesn\u2019t let its subscribers use strong encryption. The ISP does technically allow VPN and encryption use\u2026 but only \u201cup to the bit length permitted by the Department of Telecommunications,\u201d which is 40 bits. 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