will come where it is prohibited to be european and we get arrested after coming to the States... ;-) There's a serious issue lurking behind here, which is that a sufficiently motivated USA government could keep a hot-list of known crypto users on the computer at Customs, and arrest them upon entry. This is unlikely to the point of ridiculousness right now, and, with Cantwell's bill having passed committee and alternate PGP releases already out, becoming moot. Do I violate american law when I transfer files from United Kingdom to Germany? In some cases the internet packets are routed through american machines because the connection Germany/Britain is lousy slow. Well, the USA might want to claim jurisdiction. They've already done this with money in transit. There was a recent case where money was being wired from Columbia to Europe somewhere. New York was an intermediary which provided connectivity for the money--a holding account. The money was seized while in the holding account. The Supremes upheld the seizure. An agressive prosecutor might apply this precedent to data flows, arguing that at the point the data entered a US computer, it came inside USA territory and therefore was re-exported. Ignorance might be no defense. As I recall, the bankers knew the money was flowing through New York, but I don't think their client did. Eric