We're not. I was very tired and was using my other, much smaller, brain to think with. ;^) I was (thinking?) of distributing a common secret key to

Mikes response to the ideas of encrypting the Cypherpunks mailing list... people

who we know are not spooks, and who would be interested in the cypherpunk's cause.

I think it MAY be possible to write a perl program that would take the incoming mail encrypted with a single common public key for Cypherpunk mailing list mail, than would decrypt it internally, then for each person in the mailing list, using their public keys, encrypt each message for the individual recipients, and mail them out. Naturally this would be SLOWER THAN MOLASSIS!! But it would be worth a try to see how it works. Lets talk about it at the upcoming Cypherpunks meeting. The ravers can really use something like this to keep the Full Moon Raves location a secret and known ONLY to those dedicated ravers that want to attend. As far as the Cypherpunks mailing list goes, it may not be appropriate to encrypt to the group ALL the time, but SOME messages might be worthy of encryption.