On Aug 3, 8:51pm, Craig Sanders wrote: } Subject: Re: New Apache package (Was: Re: Q about making a package with a } } On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: } } Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> } } > You (Yves Arrouye) wrote: } > > To anyone that read this message: your suggestions for features you } > > want in the Apache package are welcome. } > } > Perhaps you could put in the SSL patches and make the apache-SLL package } > available on a site outside of the US? } } excellent idea.... } } The one tiny problem with it, if i recall correctly, is that French laws } regarding encryption are even worse than the US laws. They're not even } allowed to possess encryption devices/software!
I'm not sure. What's sure is that we don't have the right to use them... Now, with the ever increasing pressure of would-be electronic merchants there will be a possibility to crypt for authentification at the express condition that a trusted (by the State) third-party has a copy of the encryption key. But I still don't know if anyone will be allowed to give such a key to this third-party (I'm afraid this will not be the case because noone will be willing to process too many keys), so I fear only commercial parties will be able to do that for se in their software for example. France: Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite ;-) but not with regards to encryption. Yves. --
