Re: Encryption is like a locked suitcase

Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:14:05 -0400

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This isn't really CodherPlunks material -- CodherPlunks is really for
discussing the technology and not the politics.

I am happy to host additional discussion on this topic on
cryptography@c2.net, of course.

.pm

Jim Gillogly writes:
> This business of customs people snooping laptop files
> is pretty annoying. Do they also look in each of the
> physical file folders in a businesswoman's briefcase
> to see if there's a copy of Playgirl in there?
>
> Rather than all these schemes about renaming files or
> replacing them with innocuous ones, I suppose if I were
> interested in putting something over on the inspectors
> I'd just temporarily remove LILO from my laptop and let
> it boot automatically into the totally benign Win95
> partition instead of my insidious crypto-rich Linux
> partition. I think it unlikely that their inspection
> would notice an unused partition.
> --
> Jim Gillogly
> Trewesday, 29 Wedmath S.R. 1998, 16:36
> 12.19.5.8.2, 5 Ik 15 Yaxkin, Ninth Lord of Night

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