I've been searching for GPG support for mailman. While this seems to have been a project some time ago I can find nothing recent on it. The last thing I could find from a few years ago was that it is not yet ready for prime time. Has that project been abandoned or can someone update me on the status? TIA.
Dennis Putnam wrote:
I've been searching for GPG support for mailman.
To do specifically what?
While this seems to have been a project some time ago I can find nothing recent on it. The last thing I could find from a few years ago was that it is not yet ready for prime time. Has that project been abandoned or can someone update me on the status? TIA.
There are patches in the tracker at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/557998> and <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558189>. There are no plans to incorporate this functionality in Mailman 2.1
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Dennis Putnam wrote:
I've been searching for GPG support for mailman.
To do specifically what? Encrypted message distribution. Users send encrypted messages to the
On 9/21/2012 8:47 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: list using the list's public key. The list decrypts the message and re-encrypts it using each member's public key when it distributes messages. The user must provide their public key as an attachment when they subscribe. That is precisely what the GPG S/MIME project describes.
While this seems to have been a project some time ago I can find nothing recent on it. The last thing I could find from a few years ago was that it is not yet ready for prime time. Has that project been abandoned or can someone update me on the status? TIA.
There are patches in the tracker at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/557998> and <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558189>. There are no plans to incorporate this functionality in Mailman 2.1
Dennis Putnam wrote:
Encrypted message distribution. Users send encrypted messages to the list using the list's public key. The list decrypts the message and re-encrypts it using each member's public key when it distributes messages. The user must provide their public key as an attachment when they subscribe. That is precisely what the GPG S/MIME project describes.
I am not familiar with a Mailman GPG S/MIME project. The patch at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558189> purports to do this. There are no plans to incorporate this functionality in Mailman 2.1.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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