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Re: [ietf-dkim] Accidental versus malicous error

2007-12-20 16:12:52
Douglas Otis wrote:

On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:

That would be a bad idea. I believe they changed this in the most current version, but gnu mailman -- as an example -- was stripping out DKIM signatures thinking they were doing the originating domain a favor since they "knew" that the signature would fail (which, in fact, wasn't always the case). It took quite a bit of convincing on my part that they should just leave it alone. It's not hard to understand their perspective though: they thought a broken signature would look more spammy than a missing signature. Rinse, repeat.

A mailing-list not breaking signatures is a scary idea. This would open the door for all sorts of abuse.

Yesterday, of the 32082 messages that Cisco sent through mailing lists,
99.6% of them passed verification. Keep your grubby mitts off of the
supposedly broken signatures like RFC4871 says.

      Mike
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