On Fri, 29 May 2009 22:22:11 +0100, John R. Levine <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I would really like to remove l= from DKIM to make it clear that it is
not
a good idea to even try to guess the history of a message based on
signatures that don't verify and cover the whole messag.
Speak for yourself.
I see a message with a broken, but otherwise plausible, signature, and
that seems on the face of it a genuine message that I might very well care
about, then I might well start to play around to see if some small munge
of the message might have caused the broken signature. I have often done
this in the case of seemingly broken Usenet control messages.
Just because a feature is likely to be used only rarely, and then only by
people who have a good understanding of the protocol, is no reason to
remove that possibility entirely from those people. That is just called
"dumbing down", and "dumbing down" is a dumb idea.
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