Re: France and Cryptography

1999-01-20 Thread Sven LUTHER
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, > > > > h

Re: France and Cryptography

1999-01-20 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
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 w

Re: France and Cryptography

1999-01-20 Thread Sven LUTHER
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 LUTH

Re: France and Cryptography

1999-01-20 Thread Olivier Tharan
> > 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 b

Re: France and Cryptography

1999-01-20 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:51:03AM -0800, Joseph Carter 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! it will become legal, but is not yet, isn't it ? when will be the l

Re: France and Cryptography

1999-01-20 Thread Joseph Carter
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! > > In the meantime (until our representatives adopt the law), the > authorized key sizes go from 40 bits to 128 bits. Now if the idiot