Reply to post: There was no hard 40 bit limit in France at the time

There was no hard 40 bit limit in France at the time

As per the law n°90-1170, cryptography was free as long as the government had full access (art. 28, I, 1°)

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000006421084/2002-01-01/

I feel terribly sorry now for having been a military weapons smuggler for years. At time, I even illegally exported them from the US *and* illegally imported them in France *on the very same day*.