[Swlug] Broken link on the website

[Matt Hill]

On 13/11/13 23:13, Mark Einon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:30:00PM +0000, Dave Cridland wrote:
>>     On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Matthew Moore
>>     <[1]matt at matthewmoore.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>       Sorta. ?Gedge is doing a redirect for [2]discuss at swlug.org to the list
>>       (so
>>       that people can still use the old email).
>>
>>       But that's about it.
>>
>>     That's probably sufficient. Just needs to read mails sent to postmaster@
>>     or a similarly official-sounding mail address.
>>     ?
>>
>>       Do we need to bother with https?
>>     Yes, everything needs encrypting.
>>     It pisses off the NSA.^C0^KIt's advisable in the face of the passive
>>     pervasive interception attack the IETF discussed at some length recently.
>>     Dave.
> Am I missing something here? Is there a point to encrypting a public
> mailing list?
>
> Also, aren't CAs are known to be vunerable to NSA snooping...end-to-end
> encryption such as PGP would be more secure?
>
> Public key attached if anyone is into that sort of thing :p
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>

How would PGP style encryption work on a mailing list? You'd need to 
know the public keys of all the recipients or everyone on the list would 
need to have access to the list's private key.

Kinda spoils the idea  :(


Matt
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