On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 09:45:48PM -0400, Kate Krauss wrote:
by law."* According to the *New York Times,* he is also in trouble for operating encryption without a license (I didn't know that was a thing. Is it just for CEOs who operate in France, or for everyone?). That's a lot of
There's a discussion about this in the cryptography mailing list. See this article: https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/08/29/the-missing-detail-about-encryption-in-the-pavel-durov-investigation/
As far as I understand it, the law in question is one passed in 2004 that required affirmative registration of encryption. Signal, easily the most protective encrypted messaging app, did register under this law when it first applied to offer Signal in French app stores. So, no, they’re not going to be prosecuted under that law, because they’re following the law.
This is the full mailing list message, it's quite informative: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2024-August/038476.html. I understand that these "encryption" charges are very much tangential to the entire thing.
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