harka@nycmetro.com writes:
On another mailing-list, there has been a lengthy discussion going on about encrypting the list-traffic or not. Although I personally agree, that encrypting a public mailing list is kind of useless I would like to know from a technical perspective if PGPdomo supports _both_ PGP and plain-text simultaneously on the same mailing list (if no public key available, send plain-text, otherwise encrypt). Also, considering the time it takes to encrypt/sign a message for each individual user (assuming they use pgp), isn't that too much overhead for the list-server, when we deal with a few hundred people and maybe traffic like on cypherpunks?
It depends a lot on the traffic. If it's 100 messages a day, then it's a few hundred times the traffic on a list with a couple of messages a week. It also depends on the kind of box you're running it on (386? Sparc 20?). So, if I were looking to cut down on the CPU time required and the traffic, I'd do this: 1. ecnrypt with the keys of every recipient to send out one encrypted messages that every recipient can decrypt. 2. consider using a daily digest (or digest every few hours). Anyway, if you have more than a dozen people on the mailing list whom you don't know personally, you should *assume* that at least one of them is a narc and/or an asshole who'll decrypt it and pass it on to others. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps