I heartily agree with Duncan here! There has been very little said by the good residents of France, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Italy, etc. about just what the crypto-related laws of their countries are.
Okay, how about the text of the French law regulating cryptography? It's available as http://www.ens.fr/equipes_dmi/grecc/loi.html. It's in French, and unfortunately my 3 years of high school study aren't up to the task. Anybody out there fluent in the language who would care to prepare an English translation? We really ought to know what the French law says, given that the US government keeps citing it as precedent for a western country to regulate cryptography. By the way, the next time a pro-clipper person does this, point out that our very own government has repeatedly accused French intelligence of committing industrial espionage on behalf of its own industries, and that there just might be a connection between these two policies that the US is trying to emulate. At a CPSR/EFF meeting a few years ago I succeeded in getting a real rise out of James Kallstrom of the FBI with this comment. Great fun. But then again, he *is* a rather excitable sort... Phil