[Mailman-Users] S/MIME and Public Key Encryption Features

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "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