Douglas,

If you manage to do this, would you be willing to share the technical
details on this list? That's something I've been wanting to do for some
time, for all the reasons you mention.

Thanks.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Palmer [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:40 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Public Key authentication

We're working on a local solution that will allow us to authenticate the
sender of a message with LISTSERV via a public key authentication
mechanism (rather than rely on moderation or confirmation). This will
allow us to create public announcements (and send more sensitive
information to private lists)  through automated systems without having
to worry about forgery, a wait for moderation, or interception of
passwords or SMTP traffic on the network.

Is anything like this on the drawing board for LISTSERV? It seems like a
no-brainer "good thing" to be able to accept messages and distribute
them without worrying about authenticity or exposing passwords, etc,
accidentally.

-- DCP