From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 11:48:51 PDT
To: Jonathan Rochkind <jrochkin@cs.oberlin.edu>
Subject: Re: Labeling Usenet articles.
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Anyone interested in using PGP with netnews, or with E-Mail in the
long run, should be looking at the new internet drafts on security
multipart extensions to MIME.

Perry


Jonathan Rochkind says:
> > No, I think he's essentially talking about a 'secure' moderated newsgroup.
> > That is, the moderator(s) would sign each 'authorised' message with a
> > special key, and the newsreader would verify that it was signed by a
>  
> Ah, now I understand, thanks. Actually, now that I see what you're getting
> at, this _does_ seem like a good idea. I think moderated newsgroups can
> be useful in some circumstances (sure, including a fundie newsgroup), and
> it would be nice to have a cryptographically secure system of doing this,
> that cant' be easily circumvented like the present one. 
>  
> And I agree that scripts using PGP do seem capable of doing this, rather then
> writing some new software. This actually is quite a good idea.