[aklug] Re: OpenPGP signatures on the mailing list

The University of Alaska is hosting our mailing list.

If you have any influence with them, then that would be the best place =20
to start.

We have generally stayed away from asking them to make changes because =20
they kindly do this at no expense to us and without complaint.

If you do have some sort of connection that is willing to attempt =20
this, please move slowly and carefully as to not disturb our current =20
good fortune.

Thanks for wanting to improve our list and for your continuous =20
contributions to it.

Mike B.

Quoting Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>:

> I was wondering if it might not be possible for the AKLUG list to
> integrate OpenPGP signatures better?
> I happened to notice that this is possible (in at least one
> implementation) by observing signed e-mails from the courier-users
> mailing list. How they go about it is to create a multipart/mixed e-mail
> with three parts, utilizing nesting.
>
> I. multipart/signed
> i. text/plain (my original message)
> ii. application/pgp-signature, attachment disposition (my signature)
> II. text/plain, inline-disposition (some advertisments)
> III. text/plain, inline-disposition (the list signature)
>
> Thunderbird (Enigmail) at least, has no trouble processing the e-mail
> and verifying the signature when the e-mail is received in this sort of
> format. I think this is a cleaner way to go about it, rather than
> copying the signature attachment into the mail (with comments) or
> forcing the sender to use inline PGP.
>
> I'm sure, of course, that it is more difficult to implement this sort of
> thing than to ask for it, but if it might be considered as a
> possibility, that would be appreciated. I could send an example e-mail
> file from courier-users if that would help. It is a sourceforge mailing
> list, and I believe they are using exim.
>
> --
> frigidcode.com
> theologia.indicium.us
> PGP Key: ID 0x714ED81D (keyserver2.pgp.com)
>
>
> -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
> -- File: signature.asc
> -- Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
>
> iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO6A5HAAoJEI2DxlFxTtgdeYcH/AuGCIUl2pFok79VXXsYdoXl
> /jWmKZ8Se9WltDzz9tpwqp4mTdTcu4Rc9qMFfV/k+g9AEbIm1JxdIoIl2xsAiyvn
> 1nPb1VIeSTW5IJqB3siV2RiLCS3l+1NhxxdSry2ss5d9aRMssLBLDCUkrY+OuOv5
> WdeME4yGhVfydSlrdBcrGMVm4h/Vagrj6VzqSDjRMR7ZGZYA1xAW0ZaA9dZ88vx2
> BB9KMg3Dq93YVBrw/145/DC00KWFTjYJbiUcQIB5zcNaqNApIf1WGckaUs/DX4mz
> 8kAZmmr5tgCVm3gCgD6JdpUNQsaZ2JU+F+RIA4m2t6HQ3fT8rMJ17T6Y6m0EKZ4=3D
> =3Df0ks
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
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