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[ietf-dkim] Re: dkim-base-01: Section 6.2 Get the Public Key

2006-04-27 14:30:09
Sorry to have gone dark for a while --- I've been even more than usually busy. I'm trying to get a bit of catching up done today.

What I did for this was to add something to 6.1 reading "Verifiers MAY ignore the DKIM-Signature header field if it contains an "x=" tag and the signature has expired." I then added to the end of 6.1 "If there are no valid signatures remaining after this step, a verifier MUST NOT proceed to the next step."

eric


--On April 14, 2006 9:18:14 AM -0400 Hector Santos <hsantos(_at_)santronics(_dot_)com> wrote:

Eric,

In regards to the expiration tag x=, until a decision is made about
its fate, it is still part of the specs.  In such a case, to comply
with the x= current specs,  a preliminary step is missing in
section 6.2:

| 6.2  Get the Public Key
|
|  ...
|
+   0.  If signature has an expiration (x=) tag, check if the
signature +       has expired. Signatures MUST NOT be considered
valid if the +       current time at the verifier is past the
expiration date. +
|   1.  Retrieve the public key as described in (Section 3.6) using
|   the domain from the "d=" tag and the selector from the "s=" tag.

--
Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com








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