[Mailman-Developers] Mailman, PGP and S/MIME (was: Re: [...] Encrypted mailing lists)

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jul 3, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Joost van Baal wrote:
> Op Thu 10 Apr 2008 om 06:40:32 -0400 schreef Barry Warsaw:
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> I would really
>> like to support some form of encrypted mailing lists for Mailman 3,  
>> if
>> not also 2.2.  It isn't possible to add this feature to Mailman 2.1.
>>
>> If you're interested in working on this, it would be good to capture
>> some requirements and use cases in the wiki.  If you wanted to do a
>> survey of the approaches and implementations that have gone before,
>> that would also help.  Ideally, some folks would be motivated enough
>> to start developing some branches in Bazaar so that we can take a
>> look, with an eye toward supporting the feature officially in a  
>> future
>> release.
>
> Some good news: with help from others, I have taken up work on
> mailman-ssls again.  It's now called mailman-pgp-smime, and kept in a
> Bazaar branch at
> https://code.launchpad.net/~joostvb/mailman/2.1-pgp-smime .  The
> project's homepage is at http://non-gnu.uvt.nl/mailman-pgp-smime/.
>
> A patch for mailman 2.1.11 is available from
> http://non-gnu.uvt.nl/pub/mailman/mailman-2.1.11-pgp-smime_2008-07-03.patch.gz
> .
>
> This patch is mostly the same as the 2.1.7 one from Jan 2006.  In the
> coming months, the patch will greatly improve though.  See the file
> TODO.PGP-SMIME in the patch.
>
> Comments on the code are welcome (but you guessed that :)

Very cool.  Don't forget to add your branch to the list of unofficial  
ones:

http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/MailmanBranches

- -Barry

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