[ILUG] Re: please tell me

[Liam Bedford]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:24:41AM +0100, Silvan delaney came forth with:
> 20/09/2001 17:44:38, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:
> 
> how can anyone tell us not to send mail encrypted?
> isn't e- mail part of the old postal secret i.e. privat?
heh? I'm sure you'll find the government intercepting plain old post too
now, on the premise of national security.

Anyhow, all they are doing is banning encryption. Everywhere. Including in
ordinary letters.

> exept of course for this old east- german stuff of opening privat letters send by "westernese"
> to some joe doze in the east !
> and for me it's a matter of privacy rather than a matter of illigal activities.
But they don't know that. And as far as DMCA style laws go, if you use
encryption, you have something to cover up. Therefore you're a criminal. Or
some equally insane logic.

there was some discussion on the lbw list about a mailing list manager with
integrated GPG support. So you send an encrypted mail to the list, which
decrypts the key, and then encodes the key with the private key of each
person it sends the message to (taking advantage of the fact that PGP just
encodes the message with a symmetric key, and then encrypts that key at the
end of the message with the private key of the individual (that's what they
said anyway)). They had only found patches for the qmail based ezmlm.

L.
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