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Re: Computer hard disc scanning by HM Customs & Excise

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Tue Aug 25 12:19:24 1998

Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:00:40 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: cryptography@c2.net

Vin McLellan wrote:

>         Again, C&E to the Electronic Telegraph: "So far as we are
> concerned, there is no difference between an encrypted file and a locked
> suitcase,"

Could someone tell what would would happen if currently one sends an 
encrypted file to or from UK over the net? If that is allowed, what 
the customs officers are actually doing?

M. K. Shen

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