laanwj on Nostr: i vaguely remember there was this "You're in France now" vulnerability in the 90's ...

i vaguely remember there was this "You're in France now" vulnerability in the 90's where one'd trick Windows into believing the computer was in France, then the strength of encryption algos would be dialed back into (even then) easy to crack range

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Apple makes us declare that we are using standard encryption techniques before we push to the app store in france.

Kind of sus that they only have issues with non-standard encryption. It’s not clear if nip04 or nip44 quality for the exception.

https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference/export-compliance-documentation-for-encryption/ note169u…0w8x