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Re: France and Cryptography



On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:30:43PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > 
> > > (This becomes slightly off-topic on debian-devel)
> > 
> > no it is not, this means i (living in france) can sign debia npackages without becoming
> > a dangerous terrorist or whatever,
> > 
> > hey in the past i could have been put in jail for that ...
> 
> Not at all.
> Restriction was only for encription of text, not for signing it.

with key les than 40bit, but you could also go to jail (and still could, unitl they sign the text)
for signing with bigger keys¸ ...

this is great news for all french debia ndeveloppers, ...

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER


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