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In a previous message, Sigmund Lundgren wrote: > > Recently I've read a lot about fake posts. Is this a big problem? > It sure looks like it... Although it would make life harder maybe > it's time for PGP authentication. I don't know how much you guys excellent suggestion...., but ....snip...... > I suggest: let one person take care of the public key certification. > This person will collect and verify the keys received and send them > out when done. To his help there should be certain reliable persons > in each part of the world helping him with the verification else > it would be hard to know if Mr. Umbopu from Kenya really is Mr Umbopu > or maybe someone else... This is not a big headache...... I am assuming that the owner of the mailing list will be using majordomo or some other mailing list tool...... When a person subscribes, they just need to send their public key in the message, and majordomo will automatically add it to the pgp public key ring for the list...... Then whenever someone posts to the alias, the alias could automatically verify the public key before sending to everyone on the list..... Also, the same process that checks the key could strip it out before mailing it.... in that way, we would be good net citizens and would't waste bandwidth.... I could probably implement this in a week or so, if the owner of the list wants to contact me... The charge would be a couple of beers the next time I'm in your area.... (lets see a couple of beers from every person on the list..... kind of like getting paid a nickel from every microsoft product user) -- Regards, Andy W. Barclay. andy@le*.ca* Team Leader Crayne's law: All computers wait at the same speed.
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