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Re: [ietf-dkim] list expanders (was Re: chained signatures, was l= summary)

2009-06-12 08:33:48
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:34:19 +0100, Michael Thomas <mike(_at_)mtcc(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

J.D. Falk wrote:
Michael Thomas wrote:

There is *NO* *REASON* to strip signatures. NONE.

In fact it is HARMFUL.


Well for starters, RFC4871 section 3.5:


And from RFC2822 section 3.6:


And then RFC4871 section 4.2 goes on to say:

In general +1 to all that, though I am not as passionate as Michael, and  
can accept that hopelessly broken signatures _might_ occasionally be  
removed.

But by and large, I do not want to prevent Forensics.

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