On 8/5/02 6:36 AM, "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@python.org> wrote:
> Or, put a lock on the front door. Better yet, put a special kind of
> lock where everyone can have their own key, but you can still control
> which keys unlock it. Of course, that's got its own raft of issues
> that have been talked about before.
>
> I'd be interested to know if anybody actually /runs/ such lists.
That sounds like S/MIME or some variation of a public key infrastructure.
It'd work, except nobody's built a PK infrastructure that is usable by
non-geeks. So it remains a niche tool.
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