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France proposes key escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyle Seaman)
Mon Oct 20 11:36:39 1997
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:30:45 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Lyle Seaman <lws@transarc.com>
WSJ: French Proposal On Encryption Irks Businesses And EC
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The new rules, submitted to the European Commission on Thursday, allow
businesses operating in France to encode their corporate secrets but require
that keys to unlock the code be given to a French government-approved entity
in which the majority of the capital or votes is retained by French nationals.
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