Hi all, Apologies in advance if anyone feels this is off topic... I'm trying to address the following issue: people at my company need to exchange sensitive information with their colleagues abroad (e.g. East Europe, or Southern America). Of course, the most obvious way to protect our data is to encrypt everything, regardless how we communicate (either via e-mail or sending magnetic media). So we should use PGPi, but...it seems to me there is a _problem_. I read somewhere that Russian law forbids the use on encryption: is this correct ? Let me generalize this first question: which countries in the world don't allow encryption usage, or encrypted traffic inside their boundaries ? or allow, but provided certain conditions are satisfied ? 2nd question: which way(s) could we meet the laws in, let me say, East Europe while protecting our info ? (I'd like to avoid giving away our keys, as I'd requested -possibly- in France, so maybe encryption is not suitable). Please e-mail directly to me, since I'm not a subscriber of this list (I tried it, but it is a too high volume and specialization level for me). Thanks in advance, Franco Visentin ( visentin@milano.italtel.it )