[Mailman-Users] S/MIME and Public Key Encryption Features
Barry A. Warsaw
bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us
Fri Dec 10 07:38:26 CET 1999
>>>>> "JCO" == Jeffrey C Ollie <jeff at ollie.clive.ia.us> writes:
JCO> One thing that I would like to see would be for Mailman to be
JCO> able to detect cryptographically signed messages. Then it
JCO> would be possible to set up lists to reject unsigned
JCO> messages, or messages that are signed but have been damaged
JCO> or tampered with in transit, or messages that are signed but
JCO> the key id doesn't match any subscription, etc.
It wouldn't be hard to add a module to handle this with the 1.2
codebase (modulo exposing configurability via the Web interface).
JCO> This feature could also be used to create stronger moderated
JCO> lists by rejecting messages that aren't signed by a key that
JCO> is listed as belonging to a moderator.
That's a neat idea!
-Barry
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