Re: french crypto regulations relating to personal encryption usage by visitors?

[Dean Anderson <dean at av8.com>]

The IETF could write a letter to the appropriate Ministry to ask for a
special exemption.

This may also motivate them to continue the liberalization of the crypto
laws.

'Rarely enforced' doesn't mean that they should be ignored.

		--Dean

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> As the next IETF meeting will be in Paris, and France has had something
> a reputation for placing strict controls on the use of cryptography, I
> took a look..
> 
> (This is, of course, a matter of potential concern to those of us who
> carry laptops with encryption software for personal use to every IETF
> meeting...)
> 
> It appears that France may have recently substantially liberalized its
> regulation of cryptography.  A site at:
> 
> http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/cls2.htm#fr
> 
> has what claims to be a summary.  There appears to be a personal use
> exemption of some sort but there's no mention of re-export of the laptop
> you imported when you entered the country..
> 
> I'm not particularly worried as most of these laws are rarely enforced
> in other countries.  Anyone have a better idea?
> 
> 						- Bill
> 
> 
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