On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:42:01 -0700, Jon Callas wrote:
1. DKIM makes it easier to detect sender forgery. The three important
kinds of forgery are:
I think I'm in violent agreement with you. I'd state it slightly differently.
I like your wording enough to suggest that we try to assess support for it
among
the list.
I'm suggesting some minor changes, only to tighten it up a bit:
There is nothing in an ordinary email message, except for the RCPT TO line
and the IP address of the host that sent it to you, that is a reliable
identifier. A validated DKIM signature lets you take some reasonable subset
of the message you received and know that it came from a designated
source.
The main benefit of DKIM is that a validating agent can know where the
message came from. This is more reliability than email source
identification has ever had before.
How do folks feel about this characterization of DKIM?
d/
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