This reminds me that in france, unless cryptography is not used for authentication, it is considered a military weapon, and civil usage is restricted in its key strength. Above a certain strength, you technically have to give your key to the government !!...!!!
I don't have a source, but fr.wiki [1] says that in 1999, the government allowed for 128 bit keys to be publicly used without depositing it to the government. It also says that PGP was illegal in france until 1996 (considered a war weapon of category 2, whatever that means).
So I wouldn't be surprised if it were illegal over here to use key strengths above 2048 for end to end encryption in france...
TIL that content for wikipedia pages changes per language. I clicked 'English' in the left pane hoping to learn more about what you are saying, but the English version does not have the 'En Europe' section. not so great. Thanks for your post
They are in fact entirely parallel Wikipedia encyclopedias written in different languages. Not only will articles have different information and be organised in a different way, whole families of related articles may be organised in different ways from one language to another.
This seems pretty reasonable seen for the whole encyclopedia, but I suppose if you assume that the language change option will just translate the page you're currently looking at then it's quite a surprise.
> 2. The RSA key strength is only 1280 bits.
This reminds me that in france, unless cryptography is not used for authentication, it is considered a military weapon, and civil usage is restricted in its key strength. Above a certain strength, you technically have to give your key to the government !!...!!!
I don't have a source, but fr.wiki [1] says that in 1999, the government allowed for 128 bit keys to be publicly used without depositing it to the government. It also says that PGP was illegal in france until 1996 (considered a war weapon of category 2, whatever that means).
So I wouldn't be surprised if it were illegal over here to use key strengths above 2048 for end to end encryption in france...
[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiffrement#En_France