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> Von: Johan Myréen[SMTP:johan.myreen@setec.fi]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Januar 1999 16:06
> An: christophe.leroy5@capway.com; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Betreff: Re: US relaxes crypto restrictions?
>
> christophe.leroy5@capway.com wrote:
>
> > Beware that if you include DES with more than 40 bits,
> > French people wont be allowed any more to download nor use
> > Linux. It would be a pity (You cannot import nor use what crypto
> > you want)
>
> That would be a smaller problem than the current one. Somebody
> just today posted a list with the number of subscribers to
> this list, broken by domain:
>
> >Last time I checked, there were 3015 subscribers broken down by TLD:
> >
> > 736 com
> > 397 net
> > 293 de
> > 247 edu
> > 179 org
> > 102 uk
> > 86 nl
> > 83 se
> > 76 au
> > 66 fi
> > 59 fr
> > ...
>
> Only excluding France would allow the majority of the developers
> to work on the official kernel containing crypto. A separate "kernelfr"
> version could be made available, just like the kerneli version today.
>
> I guess getting rid of the French crypto policy won't happen without
> suffering some pain anyway... The question is, should the whole World
> suffer?
>
> Johan Myréen
> jem@iki.fi
>
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