I am getting involved in networking some local BBS' and message bases. One of the primary functions of this network will be to serve as a library for PGP keys and to use PGP in sending messages.

Now, if people read their messages offline, is there any offline readers that exist that integrate PGP (all this is IBM based) or

I'm working on one myself. I'm testing it now; its still kinda alpha at the moment.

is there an easy way to do this. Ideally, I want to avoid having to decrypt each message individually and would like PGP interfaced so that it could recognize a message header, apply th eright key, and output in the reader. I am probablky asking for too much.

Not at all. My system is currently geared toward UNIX, but can be modified to work with anything. ;^) Right now, I have to select the mail by hand, but the software xfers it and indexes it automaticly. Then I can select read and I get a menu of my messages to be read....index, sender, and subject. I have delete working. Also, I have send working quite well. You select Create to create a message. You then have a choice of editor. After you create a file, you have the option of calling the encryption menu to encrypt/sign it. Then you select send. You give the program the name of the file, who it goes to, and a subject. I have a script which dials the system, and uploads the mail with- out me being there. The benefits are that the plaintext never spends time on the mainframe, and you control the keys. I have a few features to add. I want to add multiple-hosts capability, aliases, and automatic encryption. I'm writing this sytem in 4dos batch language and telix communication scripts. I'm doing it this way because it's a great developement language with lots of high-lever tools. I'm quite prowd of how it's working. I'm also thinking of porting it to C.

Does anyone have any experience/advice w/ this tpye of large scale implementation of PGP? I know the need to encrypt most of the messages will be small, but I think it is important to get these people so familar w/ encryption, they won't be scared and will defend it when the need arises.

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