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
