On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 05:06:20AM +0200, Anthony G. Atkielski <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 58 lines which said: > The legislation on cryptography in France is vast and complicated; Yes and the last update was in last july so you have to apply a lot of diffs to know the current situation (think of DNS-related RFCs...). > believe it still holds the record for severity of restrictions in > the developed world. Yes. > However, the laws have been greatly liberalized in recent years, Yes. > and those laws that remain seem to be quite loosely enforced. It seems they have never been enforced at all. I remember talking in the Parliament at a crypto hearing, wearing the famous RSA-in-3-lines T-shirt and claiming "I use crypto illegally" and of course nothing happened to me. > In practice, I don't know if any of this is enforced for individuals > travelling on business or for other reasons, since almost everyone > with any kind of PC today has some sort of encryption software on > the PC. Practically speaking, I agree we whould ignore the problem. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf