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?

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 walked straight through British, Dutch and Maltese Customs at the respective airports and they didn't even ask what was in the bag, let alone what software. I had PGP and a huge keyring stored on my hard drive and they were known the wiser.

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.

I'd suggest to lugging them through as hand luggage. If you are worred, zip up pgp and so on with a password - if customs do check, they aren't gonna waste breaking the zip password (even though it can be done quickly) Also, I think the law may different, as you are an American Citizen using your own equipment... [*]-------------------------------------------[*]----------------[*] [*] Pyro Teknik - <pyro-teknik@geocities.com> [*] Linux Guru [*] [*] www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/7705/ [*] Phone Phreaker [*] [*]-------------------------------------------[*]----------------[*]