This legal framework has been introduced in 2011 in order to protect facilities, knowledge, savoir-faire, information which, if intercepted, could:
- Affect French economic interests (risk 1);
- Reinforce military capacities of other country or weaken French military capacities (risk 2);
- Lead to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in nuclear, ballistic, chemical or biological fields;
- Lead to the development of terrorist activities on French territory or abroad.
It's just that import/export constraints have been relaxed.
This is one of the reasons why MobiusSync is not available in the French iOS App Store since it doesn't use iOS crypt which already has approval plus it doesn't fit into some of the exceptions to the restrictions, so they'd have to fill in paperwork which is only available in French and submit via snail mail (go figure, although they do accept answers written in English as a courtesy).
Similar concerns, processes, and exceptions are effective for other countries, e.g for the U.S. you need Encryption Registration (ERN) approval from the U.S. Bureau of Industry (BIS). Exceptions are described in Category 5, Part 2 of the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
It still is.
e.g in France:
https://cyber.gouv.fr/en/protection-sensitive-and-restricted...
It's just that import/export constraints have been relaxed.See Annexe 1 here: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000646995?...
This is one of the reasons why MobiusSync is not available in the French iOS App Store since it doesn't use iOS crypt which already has approval plus it doesn't fit into some of the exceptions to the restrictions, so they'd have to fill in paperwork which is only available in French and submit via snail mail (go figure, although they do accept answers written in English as a courtesy).
https://github.com/MobiusSync/MobiusSync/issues/27
Similar concerns, processes, and exceptions are effective for other countries, e.g for the U.S. you need Encryption Registration (ERN) approval from the U.S. Bureau of Industry (BIS). Exceptions are described in Category 5, Part 2 of the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.