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Re: [openpgp] Mailing lists

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> Sun, 11 September 2016 16:57 UTC

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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Mailing lists
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* Neal H. Walfield:

> The basic idea is to publish the list of subscribes as an OpenPGP
> message.  Concretely:
>
>   To create a mailing list, the mailing list administrator generates a
>   new key pair in the usual way.
>
>   Associated with the key pair is a list of encryption keys
>   (Public-Key Packet, tag 6, or Public-Subkey Packet, tag 14).  Each
>   key may optionally be preceded by a user id (User ID packet, tag
>   13).  This list is stored in a signature subpacket with a new
>   subpacket type.

An existing implementation of this feature uses signature subpacket 10
to specify fingerprints of additional keys to which messages shall be
encrypted, in addition to the user-specified key.  It was rejected for
IETF standardization.

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