Hi Michael, > "Vatis, Michael" <mva...@steptoe.com> hat am 7. Januar 2016 um 23:04 > geschrieben: > > > Does anyone know whether a declaration has ever been filed by anyone > with the French "L'Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes > d'information" (ANSSI) for GnuPG version 2.0.16 to allow import of the > software into France?
According to a quick lookup of the issue at (1) it seems that the importation of cryptographic software that goes beyond authentication and verification (of signatures) has to be declared in advance to the French Prime Minister. Quote from (1) (sorry for putting it here in the original version) Ainsi, la fourniture et l’importation depuis un état membre de l’Union européenne ou depuis un pays tiers, de moyens de cryptologie n’assurant pas exclusivement des fonctions d’authentification ou de contrôle d’intégrité, sont soumis à une déclaration préalable auprès de Premier ministre. Cette déclaration comprend la mise à disposition de la description des caractéristiques techniques du moyen de cryptologie en cause, ainsi que du code source des logiciels. But, taking into consideration that GnuPG is free software, does not have any distributing agent neither in France (nor in other any country) and its potential users download it at their own discretion from servers located outside France (so there isn't taking place any import in the commercial/legal sense) I think that this specific French legislation is not applicable to GnuPG. Cheers Stebe (1) http://dwavocat.blogspot.com/2014/02/la-cryptologie-une-reglementation-qui.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users