# Commission Decision of 17 June 2008 laying down the physical architecture and requirements of the national interfaces and of the communication infrastructure between the central VIS and the national interfaces for the development phase (notified under document number C(2008) 2693) (Only the Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2008/602/EC), Division 7.1: Network encryption

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

No VIS-related information shall circulate on the communication infrastructure without encryption.
To maintain a high level of security, the communication infrastructure shall allow managing the certificates/keys used by the network encryption solution. Remote administration and remote monitoring of the encryption boxes shall be possible.
Symmetric encryption algorithms (3DES 128 bits or better) and asymmetric encryption algorithms (RSA 1 024 bit modulus or better) shall be used in accordance with the state of the art.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/602/annex/division/7/division/7.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-602/annex/division-7/division-7.1
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