Re: Singularity: can't happen here

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 00:12:46 MDT


On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> Cool. But, is there a way to do the equivalent of a mailing list with
> good encryption in place? Does this software exist yet? I could see

Yes. There's a patched MailMan out there which accepts PGP-encrypted mail.
There is no way of tracking the conversation by means other than
subscribing to the list.

> how it is certainly possible by I know of no list that practices such.

Which tells us something.

> And what would be the point unless entry of new participants was
> strongly controlled? So I assume, perhaps wrongly, that the

Ability to generate and submit a public key would probably act as a
filter.

> recommendation is not that all types of communication be encrypted.

IPsec.

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