On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 03:51, Snaky Love <snakyl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I would like to better understand: is gnupg good for big groups? > > I would like to encrypt communication in groups - not instant communication > like e.g. messengers like pidgin, but like on a forum or web-group - the > data persists in an archive, where the communication can be read. Members > are coming and leaving a group constantly - that means if somebody leaves > the group, she should not be able to read the content decrypted anymore, and > if anybody attaches the group all the old content optionally must be > encrypted with her key so she can read all data belonging to this group. > well, maybe you get the idea. It´s basically like a forum or mailing list > with an archive. > With my understanding of gnupg I see no other way than to store the data NOT > encrypted - in a database or wherever, perhaps on an encrypted disc to > compensate for the data not being encrypted - and then to encrypt the data > on the fly with the pubkey of the user after the user logged into the > website and is checked to belong to the right group. > But doing this would be stupid, as it would basically use gnupg only for > transport - but there is already SSL and TLS existing for this purpose. > So is there any trick to encrypt data at creation time for unknown future > users? > And how can I remove users from the group of allowed users without > re-encrypting the content? Is this possible to realize at all without having > to keep the original unencrypted content? > Is this scenario - group communication - not a use-case for gnupg at all? > Thank you very much for your attention! > Have a nice day, > Snaky >
Sounds to me like you just need a password-protected online forum such as PHPbb or such. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
