Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-06-17 05:45, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Christian Kastner: >> While that is sadly true, AFAIK all those legislations still require at >> least good cause, but more usually a court order, to do so. >> > You have no legal protection whatsoever on the "international" side of many > countries' a

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining writes: > So while I consider it great that the judges in the case you mentioned > have decided in this way, I don't think this is the *norm* and we - > those travelling to the US - have to be aware of that. Well, the norm is that your electronics aren't searched at all. Becaus

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-16 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Clint Byrum wrote: > While they can try, they ultimately cannot get away with such illegal > searches. The border is where our sovreignty begins and ends, not 100 > miles in: > > http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6933260753627774699 This is a very different reading

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-16 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Norbert Preining's message of 2014-06-16 20:49:26 -0700: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > While that is sadly true, AFAIK all those legislations still require at > > > least good cause, but more usually a court order, to do so. > > > > > You have no legal protecti

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-16 Thread Norbert Preining
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > While that is sadly true, AFAIK all those legislations still require at > > least good cause, but more usually a court order, to do so. > > > You have no legal protection whatsoever on the "international" side of many > countries' airports (sea port

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Christian Kastner: > While that is sadly true, AFAIK all those legislations still require at > least good cause, but more usually a court order, to do so. > You have no legal protection whatsoever on the "international" side of many countries' airports (sea ports, too, for that matter). If a

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-16 Thread Russell Stuart
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 12:01 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > You completely miss http://xkcd.com/538/ and the fact that some > legislations may require you, with jail penalty, to hand over > any encryption keys, passwords, etc. you have with you when > inside their territory. Quoting the man page:

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-06-16 14:01, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Russell Stuart debian.org> writes: > >> messages. One of the reasons raised for not doing it is some felt >> uncomfortable carrying around their GPG keys when travelling. >> >> My initial reaction was "that's being overly cautious" particularly >> gi

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russell Stuart debian.org> writes: > messages. One of the reasons raised for not doing it is some felt > uncomfortable carrying around their GPG keys when travelling. > > My initial reaction was "that's being overly cautious" particularly > given there signing every message doesn't mean you hav

Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-13 Thread Russell Stuart
There was a thread on d-private in early March about the benefits and downsides to to requiring every DD and aspiring DD to sign their messages. One of the reasons raised for not doing it is some felt uncomfortable carrying around their GPG keys when travelling. My initial reaction was "that's be