Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:42:15 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Change in crypto policy in France Message-ID: <19990119234215.A17276@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Nobody thought it would happen but it seems that France has now seen at least part of the Light. Crypto will be free expect for export (a consequence of Warsenaar(sp?) I guess). In French (sorry): <http://www.internet.gouv.fr/francais/textesref/cisi190199/decis1.htm>; Summary: they've addmitted that the current law is very unfriendly to electronic commerce (of course) and privacy and that it puts France far behind many other countries. So they've decided 1. to free all crypto. for domestic usage 2. to have export. restrictions 3. to modify the current key limit from 40 bits up to 128 for the moment (while waiting for the necessary law change) That's great news ! -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #69: Mon Jan 18 02:02:12 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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