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[ietf-dkim] ISSUE: SSP-02 DKIM=ALL a Flawed Concept

2008-02-01 17:37:55
Wietse Venema wrote:
In my opinion, as one of the authors listed on the ASP draft, SSP-02
is close enough in spirit to ASP that I could live with either.

The protocol is extensible. Let's gain experience with this basic
protocol and let experience teach us where extensions will be useful.

What experiences are you looking for? What are your goals? Do you really think people want to repeat this process again?

As engineers, I would like to believe that we are still capable of having intelligent foresight and know-how of our products and operations working; what dangers, the loopholes, the benefits and problem areas and what I would venture with almost near certainly many property domain owners globably will desire greater protection again forgery.

With this watered down specification, it has all the markings for 3PS exploitations - a clear violation of a domain wanting strict controls.

Unless everyone uses DKIM=DISCARDABLE, the idea that DKIM=ALL will trump these 3PS violations is something I think you are wrong about, and thats an engineering opinion based on practice - not a wishful guess.

At least SSP-01 allows for the possible of 3rd party signatures. This new version intentionally has no insight on 3PS.


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Sincerely

Hector Santos, CTO
http://www.santronics.com
http://santronics.blogspot.com

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