[liberationtech] The arrest of Telegram's Durov

[José María Mateos]

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.

Cheers,

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