[ietf-dkim] Mailing lists and signatures (fwd)

Yes, I am a nitwit, but you knew that.  This time I'll tell Alpine to sign 
it with S/MIME.
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:27:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: John R. Levine <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com>
To: DKIM List <ietf-dkim(_at_)mipassoc(_dot_)org>
Subject: Mailing lists and signatures

We've had a lot of arguments about the importance of verifying the identity of 
contributors to mailing lists.  If you think that's important, take a look at 
this message.
Even though Mailman has added a subject line tag and a message footer, the 
S/MIME signature still verifies, and your MUA should show a green star or 
whatever, at least once you've told it to import my S/MIME cert.  Mailman 
automagically wrapped the multipart/signed in multipart/mixed.  And the signing 
cert has both my full e-mail address and my True Name.
So I suggest we update the DKIM MLM draft to take out all the stuff about 
signatures surviving lists, and just say that if it's important for your 
signature to survive, S/MIME already does that, with a suitable pointer.
R's,
John

smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

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