Hi,
Stefan: thanks a lot for publishing your patch! Of course, this is _very_ helpful!
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:31:56AM +0100, Stefan Schlott wrote: <snip>
I didn't figure out at
first glance how chunking works... otherwise, a mail might be encrypted to several recipients - increasing its length by several bytes, but reducing the number of forks of gpg processes.
You definitely need to encrypt the message to all recipients, then send out one copy. Anything else would be prohibitively expensive in terms of computation time for any reasonable number of recipients.
This will create huge messages in large MLs. Further, this will reveal all recipients' key ids - something not wanted in anonymous lists. Imho the tradeoff lies somewhere inbetween - encrypt messages to n recipients (yet to be implemented).
I guess gpg's --throw-keyid option is useful here.
Bye,
Joost
-- Joost van Baal http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/ Tilburg University j.e.vanbaal@uvt.nl The Netherlands