[Enigmail] My Bad, Sorry About That

Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8 at verizon.net
Fri Aug 22 04:39:46 PDT 2008


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John W. Moore III wrote:
> Alexander Dahl wrote:
>> Hi John,
> 
>>> PLEASE; *never* Post to a List an Encrypted Message /unless/ it is
>>> Encrypted to _every_ Member of the List!
>> You know, this is not possible. ;-)
> 
> Perhaps not this List but there are Lists where it is common practice.  :)
> 
Really? Those lists must be extremely small. Imagine that the list server
would have to look up the public key of everyone signed up for the list. And
it would need to encrypt the text of every message for each list subscriber.
The overhead would be tremendous, would it not?

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