Hello, On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Alan Bostick wrote:
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Suppose, though, that the Cypherpunks list was encrypted in this way. There are about a thousand listmembers. Using one IDEA key and the multiple-recipients option would mean that the encrypted message would consist of a thousand RSA-encrypted session keys followed by the IDEA-encrypted cyphertext. If everyone used a 1024-bit-or-longer key pair, then each message would be a megabyte long!
The way to do it is for the system (listserver) to have everyone's public key, and just encrypt every message for that person. If this isn't done already I could get around to writing the program to do this. ========================================================================== James Black (Comp Sci/Comp Eng sophomore) e-mail: black@eng.usf.edu http://www.eng.usf.edu/~black/index.html "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." Oscar Wilde **************************************************************************