Re: [PLUG] gpg/mailing list?

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 21:38, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> On 04/17, kevin mudrick wrote:
> > does anyone know offhand if there exists sometype of mailing list for *nix
> > that integrates well with pgp/gpg?  for instance, for sending encrypted
> 
> I don't think gpg goes well with the concept of a mailing list.  I think
> the best option would be to have each member set up their mail client to
> encrypt every message they send to the list with the keys of all of the
> other members.  Encrypting just to one key belonging to the list itself,
> and then having the listserver software re-encrypt it to all of the members
> would increase the over all processing required.  If the users encrypt to
> all of the other users, you don't bottleneck at the server.
> I don't think it would be too hard, say, with mutt.  

What about lists with large members - say 2500? (I'm on 2 different
lists, with that many users) Imaging encrypting 2500 messages, everytime
you wanted to say anything ... :-)

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