GPG and Mailinglists using IBCPRE

[Neal H. Walfield]

Hi,

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 16:38:27 +0200,
Martin Konold wrote:
> what is currently the recommended setup for running encrypted mailing lists.
> 
> I am thinking about some IBCPRE mechanism. see also https://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/Identity-based_conditional_proxy_re-encryption
> 
> I think this would allow the mailing list software act as a proxy reencrypting 
> without directly having the private key of the mailing list on the mailing 
> list server.
> 
> What do you think about IBCPRE.

There is some highly experimental support in a GnuPG branch for
mailing list support that doesn't require that the server access the
plain text.  You can read about it here:

  http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/encrypted-mailing-lists.pdf

Thanks,

:) Neal