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Re: [ietf-dkim] ISSUE 1525 -- Clarification about posting by first Author

2008-01-18 16:57:39
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2) write a security consideration mentioning the reflection attack,  
and
  the likely mitigation that filtering software should view this as
  out of the ordinary

This is the way I think we should handle it.

Charles Lindsey noted that multiple Froms are legal but rare today,  
but might be common later.

This is a marvelous point, but it never was an intent of DKIM to be  
the perfect mail security system.

If it became common for someone to play a DKIM game with multiple  
Froms, then I would expect other software (like SpamAssassin, or even  
the MTA) to start flagging it. I can envision the Sendmail/Postfix  
option to cause all multiple-from messages to be counted as DKIM- 
noncompliant (or what ever word we're using for "suspicious").

That wouldn't be a bug, it would be a feature.

If there is an edge condition that can easily be handled elsewhere in  
the mail system, let them do it.

        Jon



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