On 03/10/2017 02:08 AM, raditya wrote: > Dear Mentors, > > After going through a lot of sources mentioned in recent replies to > other subscribers and some online sources i have got some understanding > about the idea, which i would like to share with you guys and get some > feedback and suggestions . > > I think we can encrypt the list in the following ways (broadly > speaking): > > 1) Each message will be encrypted with all users as recipients. > The mailing-list maintainer will have to regularly send the list of > recipients over the mailing-list itself, > so that every user comes to know the public keys of all recipients. > But this way the maintainer will have to send recipients list to a large > number of users. If you as sender encrypt the message for every receiver, you are literally doing all the work manually and don't need mailman > 2) Another way could be relaying each message through the maintainer. > The maintainer then encrypts it for single recipient. > This might solve the problem of sending messageto large number of users > but it increases latency (each message must wait for the maintainer to > process it) > the maintainer can censor each message as they all are relayed through > him. This approach makes "maintainers" (you probably mean moderators) do all the work which also eliminates the need for mailman > 3) Or instead of using asymmetric keys we use a password given to all > users. This can already be done right now. It's as if you send an encrypted attachment that contains the actual message
There has been a GSoC project like this in the past and there was quite some discussion on the mailing list. https://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=encrypt&l=mailman-developers%40python.org _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
