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Re: [TCLUG:11729] GnuPG, PGP, and list email



On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:18:46AM -0800, ^chewie wrote:
> 
> A more appropriate use of encrypted signing would be to use it as a
> verification tool at the server level.  For example, to sign up for
> an email list, the user could apply with an email that is signed to
> the listserver, which in turn checks the signature and
> approves/denies the unsubscription request.  A list of verified
> users can be available should the maintainer and user choose it.

	Actually, signing every message would provide a solution to
the phantom e-mail address problem.  If you signed every message, the
list server could verify that the signature came from a list member.
It could then send it back out, optionally stripping or leaving in the
signature based on preference.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
Its name is Public Opinion.  It is held in reverence. It settles everything.
Some think it is the voice of God.  Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
broke a chain or freed a human soul.     ---Mark Twain
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org  http://omnifarious.mn.org/~hopper) --

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