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Re: [Asrg] MAC Constructed Message Ids.

2003-04-07 13:02:27
On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:29:45 -0400 
Alan DeKok <aland(_at_)freeradius(_dot_)org> wrote:
"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com> wrote:

Alternately, use public/private gets to do something similar.  The
benefit there is that the public keys can be put into DNS, and
*anyone* can verify the validity of the Message-ID.

That would require MTAs to detect MUA added Message-IDs and remove them
or to share the secret with the MUAs so they can correctly generate the
tokens.

There are two basic questions for such IDs:

  Who generated them and can that be shown?

  Was that ID generated for this specific message or some other (ie
  possibly re-used)?

Not a trivial problem.

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