Re: US encryption rules, France and politics

Ben Armstrong (synrg@bgpc.dymaxion.ca)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:06:16 -0400 (AST)


On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> HA!
>
> The fear of losing Linux has made the French government change their
> encryption policy!
>
> http://liberation.com/multi/actu/semaine990111/art990114d.html

Even mangled through http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/ I was
able to get enough of the gist of this announcement to realize that no
actual policies have changed, but that the government (or one arm of
the government) has announced their *intention* to relax their
policies. We will see what comes of that.

Ben

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