Re: France and Cryptography
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:02:34PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> > > FYI, the French Prime Minister just announced that cryptography will
> > > become legal in France!
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 01:10:42PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> it will become legal, but is not yet, isn't it ?
> when will be the legalisation ?
There is an announcement on
http://www.internet.gouv.fr/francais/textesref/cisi190199/decis1.htm (sorry,
it's in French) ; for the moment, the maximum key size will go from 40 to 128
bits and then they will try get to get a law approved/voted by the
Parliament.
(This becomes slightly off-topic on debian-devel)
olive
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