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Re: [ietf-dkim] Underscore considerations

2006-06-08 17:16:28

On Jun 8, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

At 4:35 PM -0700 6/8/06, Jim Fenton wrote:
Let's try to construct the problem case:  Suppose someone managed to
register _domainkey.com. They could then publish keys in that domain, and sign arbitrary messages on behalf of .com. That's obviously a Bad
Thing.

Er, why? It is only bad if someone signs messages with "d=com", which is unlikely.

Assume that a recipient expects to see the email-address validation annotation. A bad actor that has obtained or compromised a key at this location could then sign messages and recipients could see all the email-address using *.com annotated as having be validated. This validation, as currently defined in DKIM, is to be accepted.

-Doug
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