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Re: [ietf-dkim] New DKIM threat analysis draft

2005-10-06 07:54:47
I have only one real reservation. In section 6.3, discussing the message 
replay attack, ...
esp. in 2nd paragraph... It is presented as if DKIM 
cannot be applied against replay since replay is indistinguishable from 
acceptable acts e.g. forwarding. This is not necessarily true. A 
legitimate application of DKIM may require senders to indicate specific 
recipient; this would allow replay prevention, of course in the price of 
requiring additional support to deal with legitimate forwarding. I'm not 
suggesting DKIM should be modified to support that, indeed this is not 
required at DKIM level at all, but I think the text now seems to exclude 
this usage, and this should be fixed imho.

DKIM doesn't do path authentication by design.  It's not a bug.  

It would be fine to mention that, but it would be a grave mistake to
jump into the forwarding swamp from which no path authentication
scheme has ever emerged.

R's,
John

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