Re: France and Cryptography
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 01:16:15PM +0100, Olivier Tharan wrote:
> > > 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)
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 ...
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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