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Re: Do S/MIME and OpenPGP protect message headers?

2011-12-28 10:24:16


On 12/28/2011 7:27 AM, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote:
Hi,

just to check: S/MIME (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5751) does not does
include/cover the 5322.From and the 5322.To fields as part of the cryptographic
payload. Protection of headers can be achieved by wrapping up a the complete
message into a message/rfc822 bodypart and sign/encrypt that


However, of course, the contained message then ceases to be treated as a normal message by the receiving user agent. It's just content.

Although not it's primary task, data integrity protection /is/ provided for listed header fields by DKIM. (The signature lists the fields it covers. This typically does include From:, To:, and cc: and Subject.)

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  Dave Crocker
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