In a recent note, Duncan Simpson said:
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:12:34 +0000
>
> The EEC has evolved into the EU. Europe is actually quite a big place and the
> US attempting to push it around has limited impact (hormine treated beef is
> still exlcuded).
>
> You might like to know wrt crypto export controls the US efforts to get the EU
> to join the "crtpyto is muntiions unless we can break it" club are not
> working... in fact the is an EU directive recognising useful crypto must be
> decent and internatinaly avialable, which has been around for quite a few
> years. This is completely incomatible with US-style strangulation.
>
Excuse my US naivete, but
o Is France a member of the EU?
o Is France crypto-friendly nowadays?
-- gil
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