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Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: dkim service

2005-10-13 21:51:44


OK. Able is on your whitelist. Charlie is on your blacklist. Now what?
I'm making this up as I go, but I suppose I would accept the message: if someone I trust asserts responsibility for the message, that's more important than the fact that that someone I distrust also asserted responsibility.

'making this up as I go' is really exactly the problem. multiple signatures moves from one entity taking responsibility to some unknown combination of responsibilities, ensuring substantially greater complexity in the overall system. What are the relationships among the signers? How much does the validator care and in what way? etc.

d/

ps. the small matter of transitions, such as between different signing keys, is really the argument that convinced me we needed multiple signatures. but that is a "find one valid signature" rather than :"analyze the relationship among multiple".

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