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Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed changes to MLM draft

2010-08-30 15:39:11
(2) Tear out everything having to do with making author signatures
survive list relaying, dropping all that text altogether, and instead
pointing people at S/MIME or PGP (John’s proposal);

-1. S/MIME and PGP aren't even vaguely related to DKIM, and we're not in
    any position to know whether S/MIME or PGP are better. We should just
    state the facts and leave it that.

I am happy to just state the facts so long as the facts are, approximately, that many MLMs break the signatures on messages they resend, that's not a bug, and it is vanishingly unlikely that will ever change.

The only reason to mention S/MIME and PGP is to point out that there are other crypto standards designed to have more robust signatures, if that's what you want.

R's,
John

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