Post #1461167
2025-11-25 12:09 UTC
It was a long time ago, in the 1990s or so IIRC.
I'm having difficulties finding sources as well.
I found one article that reports on the underlying legislative restrictions but fails to spell out what happened in practise.
https://gilc.org/crypto/crypto-results.html#France
@maxlath @watchfulcitizen
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@hallunke23@troet.cafe 2025-11-25 23:08
Oh, and IIRC they also put a crypto backdoor into older versions of Windows that would activate when you set your keyboard layout to French. @maxlath @watchfulcitizen