The early name of the project was "milimail" with a particularly stupid logo ( some kind of orange Q-bert ).
After two years of dev they think it was a bit too intimidating and inappropriate for a more wide use. So they changed the name to Trustedbird.
1) the 40bit limitation in the 90's was never enforced
2) The 128bit nether
3) The use of any length of key if totally legal since 2004 ( LCEN law ), only the import and export are regulated over 128bit.
4) If you don't export military grade radio communication equipment you are totally out of focus of the actual legislation.
5) The DCSSI give general allowance to the import and export of open source software, so you are free to export GPG and openSSL from France to Cuba ( i'm not sure you have the right to do this from the US for example )
Alright so when the sub routine compounds the interest is uses all these extra decimal places that just get rounded off. So we simplified the whole thing, we rounded them all down, drop the remainder into an account we opened.
The military reasons are not so clear, both GPS and Galileo are operated by NATO members, they even reached a compromise, that Galileo was to use a different frequency. So you can jam one without degrading your own military signal in the pretty improbable case of a war where both side don't agrees to block they civilian signal.
The first version of the project with a Galileo signal on exactly the same frequency of the GPS to prevent discriminated jamming had a real military interest ( if you jam my signal you jam your too, we both end blind ).
They will not switch off the GPS signal, they will switch it to encrypted US military device only signal.
The French exocet missile worked perfectly. Argentinian even convert their sea-sea version to air-sea version by their own and it's unclear if they did seriously damaged the HMS Hermes.
The real kill switch was on the German made torpedo of the Guppy. They fire nine torpedo again the Yarmouth none exploded.
Morality for your weaponry buy french.
It is considered a sect here, and says it has some 45,000 adherents, out of some 12 million worldwide.
The French adherent number is unverified, most french study are more around 5,000, 10,000 adherents max. Free software support group like the April are probably as bigger than the french church of Scientology.
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The research and training facillity of the CEA in Saclay. The INSTN ( nuclear engineering school ) is just 400m under. I'm not sure about the number of reactor near the MIT but it's probably less.
P.S. the Sorbonne is a literature university, they don't taught engineering. French university system != US univeristy system
It's like with users and computers. Instead of teaching people how a computer works and how you interact with one, they learn the exact sequence of steps they have to follow to make something happen.
I don't know for airplane pilot but in many life critical task assisted by computer, accidental behavior is the core of the training. Most of them use the "state based approach" developed by the nuclear industries after the Three Mile Island accident. Identify the actual state of yours devices, start by the worst scenario, do the associated procedure, iterate until it's in a safe state. You usually don't have enough time, global picture and cool head to analyze the situation.
Pilot are not robot executing blindly the procedure, the procedure only help them to focus and chose what's must be done first.
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