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SubjectRe: US relaxes crypto restrictions?
> 
> > 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?

I think nobody shall suffer of it.
Just make a kernel with everithing needed for encryption but only
xor encryption, and a separate patch that replaces xor by DES

Everybody will be able to use the one they want.

People ontside france can download nonDES version and patch it
People inside france cannot download DES version and unpatch it,
as they arent allowed to download a version with DES if Linus hasnt
declared it to the government.

christophe

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