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Re: Mailinglist programs with PGP-encryption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Fri Jan 15 22:26:31 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 18:00:56 -0800
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: mmotyka@lsil.com
Cc: Jukka E Isosaari <jei@zor.hut.fi>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net, mac-crypto@vmeng.com
In-Reply-To: <369FE0B3.25F1@lsil.com>; from Michael Motyka on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 04:43:31PM -0800
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 04:43:31PM -0800, Michael Motyka wrote:
> 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?
-authenticating posts
-restricting messages to list members
-getting people used to using PGP
-cover traffic
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Eric Murray N*Able Technologies www.nabletech.com
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