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[Dominic Hargreaves <address@concealed>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:42:51AM +0200, David Verdin wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> In the French speaking support list, we had recent complaints about
> the lack of PGP support in Sympa.
> 
> I'm not using it myself, neither are most people in the higher
> education / research community - at least not in work context -
> S/MIME being the favoured signing technology for emails.
> 
> Well, maybe we're wrong. Are there any PGP supporters out ther that
> could tell us whether Sympa supporting PGP signature (i.e. not
> breaking it and implementing the pgp authentication level in
> scenarios) would be a good idea?

I can certainly see the ability to configure authentication scenarios
around PGP being being useful at Oxford, for technical announcement
lists. We have more PGP use than S/MIME as far as I can tell, but there
is no mass deployment of either so it would be restricted to the more
technical people in the IT department(s) I suspect.

As for not breaking it; I've not seen it break signatures on the way
through yet, although we've not been running for very long, so maybe
there are cases (trailers?) which don't work well at the moment.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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Dominic Hargreaves, Systems Development and Support Section
IT Services, University of Oxford

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