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- From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Non-U.S. crypto laws
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.163810.28727@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:38:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.203915.14465@netcom.com>
- Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
- Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
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- In article <1992Dec21.203915.14465@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David
- Sternlight) writes:
- >
- > I've been reading a number of messages by those outside the U.S.
- > who claim PGP is legal there.
- >
- > I'm curious.
-
- I can tell you about two countries.
-
- The Netherlands:
-
- It is legal. There are also laws that protect individual privacy against
- (government) infringement. There is one person at the justice department currently
- researching the issue.
-
- France:
-
- A law has been passed, stating you need a permit to use cryptohgraphic
- soft- or hardware. But the law is not in effect yet, because they still have been
- unable to think of a workable scheme to implement it. So currently, it is legal,
- but it might become illegal as soon as the implementation has been arranged.
- --
- Gerben Wierda Tel. (+31) 35 833539
- "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
- From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
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