[44541] in Cypherpunks
French crypto restrictions - update ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Sun Dec 3 03:38:06 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 03:29:58 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199512020701.XAA01919@ammodump.mcom.com> from "Jeff Weinstein" at Dec 1, 95 11:01:35 pm
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Sorry, this has nothing to do with Netscape's position on GAK:
Jim Clark writes (via Jeff Weinstein):
> Until recently, France did not even
> allow us to sell products with 40-bit keys, much less 128-bit keys.
I'm curious about this. Were Chirac et compagnie simply dragging their feet
on granting a license, have they made an actual policy change, or did they
realize they could do what Damien did ? It would be interesting to see more
information on this development. (There's a paranoid conspiracy theory I
could add to the pile here, but I don't believe it and we seem to be knee-deep
in them at the moment....)
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
Let's wait and see
