Re: CDR: Re: (fwd)

[Tim Griffiths <griffith@wis.weizmann.ac.il>]

Steve Mynott wrote:

> Of course the rogue sysadmin has a window of opportunity between the
> mail arriving and being encrypted.  Maybe a remailer that simply
> encrypted to someone's public key before forwarding could be useful?

Yes - I could see a lot of email lists going this way - a list-wide
private key, distributed to members as they subscribe, and a
listserv that auto-encrypted as it sent mail out. Of course,
without good vetting that wouldn't stop a determined sysadmin, but
it's a good way to stop casual grepping.

Tim

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