On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 07:01:51 -0700, Dale Thorn wrote:

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Soon I am going to be going overseas to Japan, and I want to take my notebook with me so I can keep up with everything, however, I have encrypted my hard drive and usually encrypt my mail. Is this in violation of the ITAR to keep everything the same when I go over?

Bad enough now that many places require you to put your laptop computer through the big gray x-ray machine (no exceptions in some places, especially federal buildings in the U.S.), but if they start requiring you to list individual files (?????).

Very high potential for abuse here! <g> Under HPFS (OS/2's file system) each file takes a minimum of 512 bytes. On your average $200 2GB drive, that'd be around 4194304 files. I wonder if they have that much printer paper? (Particularly to handle those fully qualified filenames...) <g> Now, if you were some sort of evil-cypherpunk-hacker, you might have a hacked copy of Linux that has some really "creative" file systems (The fractal file system - 5 trillion files and counting) and puts that to shame. Even better, have something equivelent to a source-code shrouder that would go through and create a bunch of random looking file names (Was PGP 0e3ahjw2.exe or 052a6v62.obj?) In other words, I have a feeling this would fly about as far as a V-22.