At 5:42 PM -0400 on 7/11/00, Eric Murray wrote:
>> * Requiring mail be encrypted to a list key. The CDR nodes decrypt it
>> and send it out unencrypted. This will totally eliminate the kinds
>> of attacks we've been experiencing. Unfortunately, poor integration
>> of PGP with mailers causes problems.
>
>
> I like that one. You can subscribe ("subscrive") and receive the list,
> but if you can't figure out PGP, you can't post. It'd reduce the number
> of clueless posts, increase the use of PGP (or whatever mail-encrypting
> technology you want to use) and increase the amount of PGP-encoded cover
> trafmessages.
Eric Hughes wanted to do that in, what, late 1994 or so. It went over like
a lead balloon.
I expect that it might be a different story, now, to the effect that lots
of people know how to use PGP, though nobody does except for still largely
ceremonial reasons, and that the reason we'd be doing it now is not
PGP/crypto-evangelism per se, as was Eric's intent, but to control spam,
which, when it existed back then, was more, um, political (okay,
psychiatrical :-)), than commercial.
Again, if anybody bothered to do it, it should be more in the form of
people doing their *own* filtering on the existence of a PGP signature than
any top down control of the list(s) it/themselves.
$.002
Cheers,
RAH
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