[Mailman-Developers] Crypto-sign to post

Ian Eiloart iane at sussex.ac.uk
Mon Nov 13 10:55:40 CET 2006



--On 11 November 2006 23:03:52 -0500 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

>
> I suppose you could also have each mailing list publish a pubkey and
> require that messages be encrypted with that pubkey in order to get
> posted.  Of course that increases the cycles involved on both ends,
> but it allows you to accept messages without requiring the
> registration of each sender's key.  Sure, spammers could use the same
> key to sign spam, but I wonder if that wouldn't be more work than is
> worthwhile for a botnet.
>
> - -Barry

Wouldn't it be easier just to join the list?


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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex


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