[Savannah-hackers] submission of Secure Mailing List - savannah.nongnu.org

[eric]

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Eric W. Anderson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Secure Mailing List
System name: sml
Type: non-GNU

Description:
Message Body Confidentiality:  No person not subscribed to a list
 can read the contents of messages sent to that list.

Message Body Intergrity:  It is assured that the contents of a
  message as received by any list reader have not been altered since
  the message was sent by the original author.

Sender Anonymity:  A message sent to a list cannot be associated
  with its original author.

Trust Metrics:  In the case of an anonymous sender, some
  universally accepted measure of the sender\'s reliability is added to
  the message by SML.

Receiver Anonymity:  The identities of list subscribers cannot be
  determined

Sender Authentication:  No message can be sent to the list by a
  non-subscriber, nor with a falsified identity.

Command Authentication:  SML can positively identify the issuer
  of any command

Command Privilege Verification:  No command shall be executed
  unless the issuer is authorized to do so.

Subscriber Access Control:  No person shall be able to become a
  list subscriber without some form of approval by a list
  administrator or list subscribers.

DOS Resistance:  No person shall be able to prevent the proper
  operation of the server.

There is not currently any version of the source code in existence - our 
intention is that code and design documents will be hosted on Savannah from the 
outset.

Other Software Required:
We are considering using the symbolic expression parser from LANL\'s 
Clustermatic project.  Its license (see link below) appears X11-like in that it 
seems to allow the creation of derivative works without restriction, provided 
that their authorship notices remain intact.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/supermon/Supermon/src/LICENSE?rev=1.1.1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Other Comments:
This is intended to serve as a complement to GNU Mailman:  We beleive that for 
mailing lists with stringent cryptographic and security requirements, the 
design goals differ enough from those of Mailman to justify a separate program.

If you have any questions for us, the project team so far, please contact us.