From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 19 17:16:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06349 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06343 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:16:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA16092; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:43:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990119174108.04756380@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:43:15 -0700 To: Ollivier Robert , FreeBSD Chat Mailing List From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Change in crypto policy in France In-Reply-To: <19990119234215.A17276@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA06345 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Merveilleux! Les Français ont une clue. ;-) --Brett At 11:42 PM 1/19/99 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: >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): > > >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message