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Re: [dkim-dev] Choosing sets of headers to sign

2007-01-12 16:09:39
Douglas Otis wrote:

On Jan 12, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Hector Santos wrote:

Consider this: Spammers will be the first to implement a change.

Actual, bad guys do not have to change because DKIM-BASE is not forcing signature requirements.

So should a header containing "<utf8(_at_)utf-8 [ascii(_at_)ascii]>" be signed?

What heuristics are reasonable to recover from a downgraded <utf8(_at_)utf-8 [ascii(_at_)ascii]> or <utf-8(_at_)utf-8> header?

I doubt this will have any impact on the email world any time soon, if ever. Don't assume vendors are going to willy nilly add things that are illogical and risk breaking across many fronts. The FROM: is one of them. So from my standpoint, it doesn't apply.

Besides passthrus/routers shouldn't be changing anything in route and EAI is basically the realm of the initial creator and MDA backend and/or MUA supporting it which is BEFORE and AFTER the fact. Not the transports where DKIM is currently designed for. EAI may be a problem for your MUA DKIM ambitions but it isn't for transports.

A restrictive policy used to solve these issues will reduce DKIM's delivery integrity. A associative policy solving this problem will increase DKIM's delivery integrity and even permit better protection. Unfortunately, the current header signing requirements will create an immediate reliability problem that will surely be exploited.

You keep going on and on and on and on to a different DESIGN that DKIM is not designed for. Something that I have seen no one is interested in or agrees with you. So why do you do this? When will it end? It doesn't matter what anyone writes, you will keep bringing up the same thing over and over again. Its getting monotonous Doug . So why do you keep doing this?

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HLS

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