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Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: dkim service

2005-10-13 12:04:10
3. If it decides that it should pass, the mailing list should LEAVE the
existing signature (that part is not universally agreed on, of course,

Since the signature won't verify any more, I don't see the point.
There have been some proposals to standardize a header that a verifier
could add to say that it found a good signature, and the outgoing
signer could sign that, but I'm not sure that's any more useful in
practice.  How much list mail do you get where there's a question
about whether the nominal sender really sent a message?  Again, in my
experience it's rare enough that we are reduced to citing individual
spoofed messages.

The mailing list may, of course, choose to re-sign the message even if
it does not mangle it, which is all the more reason to leave the
original (still-valid) signature there.

If the list happens to do little enough to the messages that the
signature still passes, that's fine.  I just want to make sure that
surviving lists is a non-goal, because it's a hopeless swamp.

R's,
John



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