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[ietf-dkim] there is no such thing as a valid dkim-base *message*

2006-08-28 09:25:15

Hector Santos wrote:

   Subject: Check your account
   Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:04:42 -0700
   From: accounts(_at_)bank(_dot_)com
   To:  PoorUser(_at_)ISP(_dot_)COM
   Sender: support(_at_)asp(_dot_)com
   DKIM-Signature: d=bank.com     # invalid 1st party
   DKIM-Signature: d=asp.com...   # valid 3rd party
[...]
According to DKIM-BASE, the valid 3PS signature would make
this an valid DKIM message, even if the 1st party signature
failed.

I'm afraid that this is a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of what dkim-base
does and does not provide. DKIM-base does not say whether a given message is
valid: that is not something that it can say with any accuracy. It does provide a
mechanism for a receiver to determine whether one or more dkim signatures
are valid. How those (in)valid signatures are evaluated by the receiver is out of
scope of the protocol.

I'm afraid that his may be one of the unintentional results
of the previous -base drafts having the Authentication-Results: header in it. Authentication-Results -- which may or may not lead to message level evaluation is most definitely not in scope though. It should be noted that even if it were, it is a receiver-side annotation which may or may not have things to say about
DKIM-base, SSP, SPF and all kinds of other things.

      Mike
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