> > 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 -- Olivier Tharan, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Multitasking: Screwing up several things at once...