Indian telecom authorities might have found a way to get access to corporate email on Research In Motion's Blackberry devices.

The government has cleared other services such as the BlackBerry messenger, voice calls and short-messaging services of the company after it addressed security concerns raised by security officials in the country.

RIM provided has given security agencies an existing tool that’s allows them to monitor text on encrypted BlackBerry messenger and the company is developing a tool to give to security agencies around the world. Security officials are now able to monitor Blackberry Internet, voice calls and short messaging.

As for emails on the device the telecoms ministry suggests that a copy of corporate email, sent to a BlackBerry handset through an enterprise server located in the premises of any company, should be made available to monitoring systems of the Inter service providers in the country.

If the approach is not acceptable to the interior ministry then RIM facec a ban on email services after August 31 deadline. The home ministry was concerned about monitoring data services on these handsets and had raised the issue with the company.

Security officials have said that continuation of BlackBerry services in the present format is dangerous for the security of the country. They indicated that the security personnel are unable to or find it very difficult to intercept or decipher messages that rely on codes with high encryption and are sent from these phones. The mechanism scrambles the emails when sent and then unscrambles them when it reaches its destinations.