Re: Laws Outside the U.S.
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
| The French company BULL makes a nice encrypting laptop computer, called | "Sub Rosa", which is used by Canada's Department of national revenue | auditors. It should be mentioned that when you buy a complete solution from a company, you need to trust them. Bull is not entwined with the government; it is an arm of the government for all intents and purposes. The French intelligence agencies have a long history of economic espionage. I am amazed that the Canadian Dept of Revenue would want the French government to read all its secrets. Adam
Adam Shostack says:
It should be mentioned that when you buy a complete solution from a company, you need to trust them. Bull is not entwined with the government; it is an arm of the government for all intents and purposes.
Why "for all intents and purposes"? Groupe Bull is *owned* by the French government, along with most big French companies. Until recently, France was run by socialists who had nationalized most banks and industry. Perry
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