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SubjectRe: 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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