Re: Labeling Usenet articles.

[Berzerk <berzerk@xmission.xmission.com>]

On Mon, 1 Aug 1994, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> > OK, so I want to enable the recieving of articles in conjunction with a 
> > censorship service.  I guess the way to do this is a sig. of the article 
> > Lets get the tools of crypto out there in advance.
> How is crypto involved? You want to have everything arrive at your site
> encrypted, and only be able to decrypt the stuff that you are permitted
Strawman.  I am talking about OTHER information PROVIDED by CENSORS.  
There is nothing mandatory here, I am talking about geting a service out 
there so that they can buy it.

> by the censor to read? Why bother, why not just only send stuff to your site
> that the censor permits you to read? If you don't want your entire site censored, but just want particular readers at your site to be censored, then the 
> sysadmin should just set something up so users are only allowed to read
> what the censor has allowed that user to read. I dont' see how crypto
> comes into it at all.
Secure exchange of information.

I Was thinking about something like this.

<article number>{sig of article number with key}
...


A whole list that could be mailed to fundies, muslums, or kinky people 
saying "this is good/evil information"(for them) fufilling there need for 
self-censorship, and at the same time making money, as you only give out 
monthly keys.:-)

Berzerk.