Suresh --
...and then Suresh Ramasubramanian said...
% David T-G <mutt> [30/09/01 00:00 -0400]:
% > I think that an even better way would be to have a public key for the
% > mail list and for the list software to have everyone's public keys; you
% > encrypt the message so that only the list server can read it (simple on
% > your end), and it decrypts it and then tirelessly (albeit perhaps slowly)
%
% This will not scale - and an MTA / listserv is not supposed to monkey with
Well, yeah, I know.
% the content of mail it sends across IMHO, by pgp signing, character set
% conversion or any other method.
I'd generally agree with you (especially about subject line munging ;-)
but this is what I'd consider a special case.
%
% > [Alternatively, you could create a list key and distribute both the public
% > and private halves to list members (only!) and encrypt to that key and
% > send the encrypted message via any list server. Or is that what you were
% > suggesting, Suresh?]
%
% Exactly. This would mean a list where subscription means meeting the
% moderator somehow and exchanging keys with him ... each member then signs
% that list key with his key to show that he trusts it.
Yeah, I suppose that's the simpler way. But my idea sounds fun :-)
%
% --suresh
Thanks!
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