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Re: Travelling With Laptops/PGP
if you are afraid of taking pgp with you, here's a proposed solution: do
not take pgp with you. when you get to spain, download pgp from norway
and recompile.
taking keys should not be a problem.
igor
Evil se7en wrote:
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>
>
> Problem:
>
> I will be spending a couple of months chilling out in Barcelona, Spain.
> I will have a local Internet account/dial-up in that city, and will use
> it to telnet into my various US-based accounts. This is how I plan to
> keep in touch with various people while I am gone.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1 - Is the importation of two laptops and it's various peripheral devices
> by a US citizen into Spain going to be a problem? I know it is in some
> European countries.
>
> 2 - Will having PGP 2.6.2, with 2048-bit keys, or any key length for this
> matter, installed on these two machines, cause a problem?
>
> 3 - What about having SSH and ESM installed on the laptops? Will this set
> off red flags as well?
>
> Now, I see a work around if this is a problem, but would like advice on
> this also:
>
> If I generate a temporary PGP key, and distribute it prior to my departure,
> and then store it on the US-based server (not a good idea, but it is a
> temporary key, and if it is not a problem in Spain, SSH and ESM would be in
> use) then bouncing out of Spain via telnet into US-based computers to
> process encryption/decryption, key management, etc, any encryption would
> never actually take place on servers outside of the US.
>
> Would this be a viable workaround? Or should I just say fuck it, and just
> disavow myself of any reason/need for PGP for the duration of my stay? If
> this is gonna be a problem, I'll just forego anything requiring
> encryption while I am in Spain.
>
> I have no interest in smuggling crypto in, or defying international law
> just to use PGP for personal use. If it's not allowed, I simply won't use
> it. But, I MUST be able to bring my laptops into the country. That HAS to
> happen.
>
> My Research: I tried to find these answers myself via conventioanl
> methods, and either there was no information available, or the embassy
> people I spoke to weren't sure. (Go figure!) So now I ask for your
> opinions.
>
> se7en
>
- Igor.