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Re: French crypto restrictions - update ?
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... :-(
[email protected] 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 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 <[email protected]>
> Let's wait and see
>
dl
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