kevin mudrick on Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:50:16 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] gpg/mailing list?


> Can I ask what the point of this would be?  You would already be
> transmitting the message en clair to the list itself, which would defeat
> the purpose of encrypting it later.  Or are you talking about having a
> master list key that one would encrypt to, to avoid the cleartext issue?
>
> (No, I don't know of any myself.  Just wondering about the motivation.)

Yeah, the idea would be to have a master list key that members would
encrypt to, so nothing would be sent over any wires in the clear.
Paranoid friends ;)  Though I guess, a password-protected, ssl-served
web-based message forum might work too...

-kevin

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