Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 2-Mar-94 Increasing the encrypted/un.. by Eric Hughes@ah.com
The incentive for using the encrypted list, then? Simple -- 1. Increasing ones personal encrypted-to-unencrypted ratio and 2. The old chestnut -- delay the unencrypted list 24 hours.
I'll consider doing this after a whole bunch more stuff is developed, like checking for digital signatures on posts and delaying those without them.
We're now running majordomo for the list, so if these features get added to the standard majordomo distribution, we could more easily deploy them. That's a hint, since I have higher priority things to work on.
Well, I know that this might be a bit of a "crazy" idea, but would the best way to distribute an encrypted mailing list be to have a PGP setup where there is a public key to the mailing list, and all recipients are given copies of the secret key? I know that it might be a bit stupid from the security side, but if each person was using PGP, the secret key would be PGP encrypted and sent with that person's public key, ensuring that only subscribers would get it, and then using that secret key to decrypt the messages as they are recieved? Just wonderin'.... Anthony