[44735] in Cypherpunks
Re: French crypto restrictions - update ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurent Demailly)
Tue Dec 5 16:59:12 1995
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 22:48:05 +0100
From: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199512030829.DAA17614@thor.cs.umass.edu>
Yes Netscape got the authorisation to sell Netscape navigator in
France (40 bits) but there is no policy changes or whatever, it is
still a tedious product by product process to get auth for crypto and
obviously, you'rent going to get an auth for PGP any real soon... :-(
futplex@pseudonym.com writes:
> 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 thei=
r 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
>
dl
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