Re: [Meta] Mailing list suggestion: PGP encryption

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2020-11-18 6:32 a.m., Viacheslav Usov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:34 PM Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There should be a way to configure the mailing list to encrypt mailing
> > list messages
>
> Encryption in the strict sense of the word makes no sense for a public
> mailing list, where all messages are relayed to anyone who cares to
> subscribe.
>
> If that word was used as a shorthand for "cryptographically-strong
> message authentication", then, again, for a public mailing list where
> essentially anyone can join and post messages to, this would be of
> very limited use. I would not know that Soni "They/Them" L.
> <fakedme@gmail.com> is any better than Soni "They/Them" L.
> <fakedthem@gmail.com>.

Encryption in the strict sense makes sense if your threat model is gmail
but not the list server.

>
> Finally, message authentication is hard for a mailing list and may
> seem too much to worry about or be impossible to comply with for its
> members. Gmail does message authentication for me, and it routinely
> classifies messages of at least one long-term list member as spam. The
> member is aware of that, but is unable or unwilling to change that.
> (This is not a complaint, just an illustration.)

Case in point.

>
> Cheers,
> V.