[Tig] gpg-enabled TIG

[Rob Lingelbach]

there is a GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) version of the TIG in beta now for  
those who would like to try it.

The objective is to use GPG/PGP encryption from subscriber accounts  
(you must have GPG or PGP set up on your mail client, with a public  
key available on a keyserver) and have all posting traffic encrypted  
arriving to the server and exiting the server.  You will be asked as  
part of the configuration to enter your public key on the TIG server.   
You'll also have to encrypt your outgoing messages with the public key  
of the Tig_ssl mailinglist, which is available on http://pgp.mit.edu  
and will shortly be propagated to the other keyservers of record.    
Posts coming back to you from the server will be encrypted with your  
public key, so will be unreadable by anyone other than you.   It will  
be up to you to keep these messages secure.
This last point means that though all data is secure and encrypted  
arriving and leaving the TIG server, once it arrives at the  
destination addresses (the subscribers) they will be able to decrypt,  
at which point the posts will be "in the clear" (i.e. readable by  
anyone with access to that person's mail account, or, forwardable by  
the person who has decrypted).

Contact me for further help, and be prepared to give me your public  
key, in ASCII-armored form, or at least your key ID so I can retrieve  
it from a keyserver.  (this data public and not a security risk; your  
private key is not revealed.  See documentation for GPG/PGP for more  
information.)

regards
Rob TIG admin
--
Rob Lingelbach
rob at colorist.org    http://www.colorist.org/robhome.html




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