From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 11:52:43 CST
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Assume a moderated newsgroup with robomoderation, such that all posts
> are encrypted with the moderator's private key and sent out, marked
> either "approved," "SPAM" or "unknown" in the Keywords field or some
> field for just that use. Anything which didn't pass through the
> moderator will not be properly encrypted, so forgery is pretty obvious.
Except that now you need reader software which does decryption. If you
just use digital signatures, then a forgery is obvious only to a person
or a reader which checks the signatures. Either way, the basic answer
is that it doesn't work with existing readers, which is a big obstacle.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net