There was a thread on the gnupg maillist about this last week. Off the top
 of my head it involved signing/encrypting with multiple recipients, this
 allows 'any' of the recipients to verify/decrypt on their own. I'd think
 you could add a command to do what you want.
 
 DAve
 
 http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2001-September/010176.html
 
 On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:04:59AM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> Suresh --
> 
> ...and then Suresh Ramasubramanian said...
> % David T-G <mutt> [30/09/01 00:00 -0400]:
> %> I think that an even better way would be to have a public key for the
> %> mail list and for the list software to have everyone's public keys; you
> %> encrypt the message so that only the list server can read it (simple on
> %> your end), and it decrypts it and then tirelessly (albeit perhaps slowly)
> % 
> % This will not scale - and an MTA / listserv is not supposed to monkey with
> 
> Well, yeah, I know.
> 
> 
> % the content of mail it sends across IMHO, by pgp signing, character set
> % conversion or any other method.
> 
> I'd generally agree with you (especially about subject line munging ;-)
> but this is what I'd consider a special case.
> 
> 
> % 
> %> [Alternatively, you could create a list key and distribute both the public
> %> and private halves to list members (only!) and encrypt to that key and
> %> send the encrypted message via any list server.  Or is that what you were
> %> suggesting, Suresh?]
> % 
> % Exactly.  This would mean a list where subscription means meeting the
> % moderator somehow and exchanging keys with him ... each member then signs
> % that list key with his key to show that he trusts it.
> 
> Yeah, I suppose that's the simpler way.  But my idea sounds fun :-)
> 
> 
> % 
> %     --suresh
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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