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Re: [ietf-dkim] Should DKIM drop SSP?

2005-10-26 18:14:48

On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:

Can you acknowledge the trade-off and defend this choice?


Can you demonstrate any support on the list for your proposal?


Those advocating use of SSP should be prepared to review disruptive changes to email handling that will be entailed. SSP related problems were not covered in the threat review prepared by Jim. From initial concept to recent changes, details of SSP were not discussed on the list. While From header email-address authorization has many advocates, the number of these advocates is not the issue, it is the integrity of the transport.

SSP does not need to be bound to the From header to repudiate messages from Bad Actors. Signing policy could be standardized to permit RFC2822 conventions for headers related to the message's introduction into the transport. With that choice in mind...

Is an originator's email-address better verified with OpenPGP or S/MIME?

What damage does SSP cause the email message transport system?

-Doug





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