Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:43:15 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Change in crypto policy in France Message-ID: <4.1.19990119174108.04756380@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19990119234215.A17276@keltia.freenix.fr>
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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): ><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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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