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- From: ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Non-U.S. crypto laws
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.102520.12671@dde.dk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 10:25:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.203915.14465@netcom.com> <1992Dec22.163810.28727@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
- Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
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- gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I don't get this. If cryptographic SW or HW is illegal, how do you define
- cryptography. If I invent another character set and translate from ASCII
- to this new character set, will I be breaking French law? What is the
- difference between another character set and a simple cryptographic system
- with character-by-character replacement?
-
- What about binary files? How can anyone tell the difference between a
- binary file (containing, for example, a compiled version of a program)
- and an encrypted text?
-
-
- --
- Claus Tondering
- Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
- E-mail: ct@dde.dk
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