-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Mainstreaming PGP on Usenet Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
Just Rich <rich@c2.org> writes:
comp.os.ms-windows.announce will also start using PGPMoose when I get around to it, probably today.
All moderated newsgroups should use it.
However the robomoderator that Igor Chudov wrote uses digital signatures to authenticate _posters as follows: there's a "white list" (as opposed to "black list") of trusted posters whose submissions will be approved and posted automatically, without going through any moderator. A person on the "white list" can request that the robomod check his signature and not post it if the submission may be a forged e-mail. I strongly urged Igor to make digital signatures mandatory for "white list" membership, but he argued that a lot of likely posters lack the brains to use PGP. The robomod will look at things like "Received" lines in the e-mailed submission to try and detect forgeries.
This is not exactly correct. The check for white list will be there exactly as you specified. It will have a toggle switch, so that we can turn it on and off, depending on how badly we are hit with forgeries.
While at it, here's a pre-filled ballot. Just add your name and e-mail it to russian-vote@netagw.com.
Please do NOT use this pre-filled ballot to vote (although of course I would be pleased with cypherpunks helping to let such an experiment go). According to voting rules, you have to vote only in response to the full CFV posted to news.groups. If you do not have access to news or your news system expired the CFV already, you can retrieve the CFV (containing the rationale, charter and the ballot) by sending email to russian-cfv-request@netagw.com. Body of your message will be ignored. All votes that use pre-filled ballots are invalid. - Igor. - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMTqH5cJFmFyXKPzRAQGYVQQAktT4DYcIcDCV9CSWK+BYGPGS9S609m59 whde9eCtG7d6XRUdnAlZnJQ/sqr/TXVtpfTfGYTZJnD0HYOO0INq7+jN7qHs/7ue KKQMAHM0mi9njEsKUP1cFvn+h68UNDSlH9zrjuMgLZvPxHcal+Wg0gAT9MBsO3xs 4HG2DcpBTSo= =JUnd - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMTqIK8JFmFyXKPzRAQFRFwQAk7/feGthnWXKKJIH8m4XTRbfW0wT1dmI GazD0DSLU2Yy/L31QeIA2wdXqxHRIv15SXqv4/rdRnpbbRnxEmIO3jzZmRjvjWTK +wXO/kDrlmiiO+QCmg6jQs8BD4Mk4wNkqwsgUhxLnX9z6nwRA3KUqpOMp8Y45HRT aFyQV5SYByg= =cTQ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----