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Re: [Asrg] Third party DKIM signatures

2006-05-31 22:38:42
 1) How does any ISP (beyond a really small geek outfit) verify that I
am authorized to use *(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org ?

They don't.  Fortunately, that's not what the ISP's signature means.
All a DKIM signature means is "you can blame us for this mail."

In your case, I'd think it'd make sense to put on a signature from
waltdnes.org to say the mail is really from your domain, and another
signature from your ISP to say it was sent through them.

We do seem to have a chronic problem of people attempting to impute
extra semantics to DKIM signatures, don't we?  

If the signing domain matches the From: domain, should we take that to
mean that the From: address is real?  I don't think we should assume
that unless the whole address is in the signature, maybe not even
then.

R's,
John

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