At 7:58 AM -0700 8/5/02, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>On 8/5/02 6:36 AM, "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@python.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
As editor of the standard that describes how to create such a list, I
unfortunately agree with Chuq. There are people who run such lists,
but every one of them that I have heard of are in the military
(mostly US, but some NATO as well).
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
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