Tim May writes:
Indeed. One of the mysteries is why so few French are on our list...I can't recall any, actually. Their country has some of the most draconian laws, it is alleged, and, as Phil notes, an active SDECE industrial espionage unit.
I noticed the following in sci.crypt recently. There are some useful crypt- analysis papers in the archive, among other things:
From vaudenay@dmi.ens.fr Wed Sep 14 11:52:18 EDT 1994 Subject: New WWW-Crypto-server Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
We are happy to annonce the birth of the html pages of our team :
http://www.ens.fr/equipes_dmi/grecc
Most of our papers are available.
--Serge for the GRECC team.
The French company BULL makes a nice encrypting laptop computer, called "Sub Rosa", which is used by Canada's Department of national revenue auditors. -- Alex Brock