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Reading the charges, one jump to my mind as being scary:

"Importation d'un moyen de cryptologie n'assurant pas exclusivement des fonctions d'authentification ou de contrôle d'intégrité sans déclaration préalable."

- Import of a cryptographic mean that does not exclusively perform authentication or integrity control functions without prior declaration.

This to me is a deeply disturbing charge, would that mean that using full disk encryption I'd be liable to be charged with that? Did the maintainers of LUKS do a prior declaration? If not are they likely to be charged if they ever travel to France?

After all, I can fully imagine a server being seized in a data center being encrypted with LUKS. In that case, is it the fault of the maintainers?



> This to me is a deeply disturbing charge, would that mean that using full disk encryption I'd be liable to be charged with that?

Interesting take, what counts as «importing» for software ? Is a copy (with source) of open-source software more in danger of being deemed so ?

> Did the maintainers of LUKS do a prior declaration? If not are they likely to be charged if they ever travel to France?

I would assume yes, but the likelihood might depend on their specific circumstances ?

It wasn't that long ago that the USA considered cryptography to be on the same level of danger as weapons wrt export...




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