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Re: [ietf-dkim] Issue 1386 and downgrade attacks

2007-02-28 13:28:34
At 10:48 AM -0800 2/28/07, Dave Crocker wrote:
It's probably worth noting that a catastrophe with a deployed algorithm, so that a rapid transition is required, has no precedent in the large-scale, open Internet, and probably would take considerably more effort and mechanism than anything we are discussing here.

Similarly, given that the failure would be in a signature algorithm, the world will be much more concerned with forgeries of SSL certificates, banking records, and weapons deployment codes than they will of their email whitelists, regardless of what two or three people on this list might think.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Domain Assurance Council
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