[3987] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Mailinglist programs with PGP-encryption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Motyka)
Fri Jan 15 21:40:35 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:43:31 -0800
From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
Reply-To: mmotyka@lsil.com
To: Jukka E Isosaari <jei@zor.hut.fi>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net,
mac-crypto@vmeng.com
Jukka E Isosaari wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Are there any mailinglist programs that would let the
> subscribers to give a public PGP-key for encrypting all the
> list e-mails when subscribing, and that would also handle
> them automatically? Would it be hard to implement this?
> Preferably the program should also be able to handle
> it's own key and be able to accept encrypted e-mail
> sent by subscribers.
>
> ++ J
>
It doesn't sound particularly difficult but I don't get the point - if
anyone can subscribe to the list a la majordomo then what's the point of
encrypting the mail?
You would need to restrict subscription for encryption to make sense.
Even then, the larger the list the more likely it is to get infiltrated.
Mike
