From: "James Black (CS)" <black@eng.usf.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 04:00:56 +0800
To: Alan Bostick <abostick@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for code to run an encrypted mailing list
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Hello,

On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Alan Bostick wrote:

> Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> Suppose, though, that the Cypherpunks list was encrypted in this way.
> There are about a thousand listmembers.  Using one IDEA key and the
> multiple-recipients option would mean that the encrypted message would
> consist of a thousand RSA-encrypted session keys followed by the
> IDEA-encrypted cyphertext.  If everyone used a 1024-bit-or-longer key
> pair, then each message would be a megabyte long!

  The way to do it is for the system (listserver) to have everyone's 
public key, and just encrypt every message for that person.  If this 
isn't done already I could get around to writing the program to do this.

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James Black (Comp Sci/Comp Eng sophomore)
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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
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