On Saturday, 04 September 2004 18:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > Most people don't encrypt mail with GPG, though they do sign with it. > I usually see GPG-encryption in IM. Encryption wouldn't work for > mailing lists, either, though signing does. In *general* encryption isn't that useful for a run-of-the-mill mailing list, but, encryption can be used for a mailing list in quite a few different effective ways depending on what the goal was. For on simple example, if a mailing list, say, "debian-encrypted", decided that it only wanted, say, *currently subscribed DDs* to be able to read messages posted there, it could encrypt all messages sent through it with the verified GPG keys corresponding to the DD's e-mail addresses who were subscribed to it. This could be pretty easily accomplished with any existing mailing-list software that let's you run a command to pre-process messages flowing through it. Sorry to interrupt. ;) -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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