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Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: SSP and Sender header field

2005-10-29 21:49:41
Frank Ellermann wrote:

Okay.  I'd say that lists _changing_ 2822 header fields are
at best utter dubious, and that DKIM shouldn't waste too much
time with broken list software.  Why not simply promise to sign
the List-ID in the SSP of the list ?
A lot of list software is broken then, including this mailing list, since it changes the Subject in many cases.

If you're talking about lists with their own SSP.  But I don't
see how that could help if a bad actor claims to be a list, and
to send mail "from" ebay.  Somehow the SSP of ebay must be able
to say "lie" no matter what the phisher-disguised-as-list does.
Including the List ID in a signature where the address of the signature (i=) corresponds to the name of the list is a good way to assert that the signature is from a mailing list. But as you point out, without some other information that a particular address is, in fact, a bona-fide mailing list, it could be anyone just posing as one.

-Jim
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