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Re: [ietf-dkim] detecting header mutations after signing

2010-10-08 11:35:59


On 10/8/2010 9:28 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
I'm still cringing at the layering violation of "fixing" in DKIM the fact 
that many RFC5322 implementations, MTAs, MSAs and MUAs alike, don't bother to 
enforce normative portions of that specification.

Is there precedent of this being done elsewhere, i.e. compensating in one 
protocol for abundant lousy implementations of a layer below it?


I'm a bit confused.

We want to re-submit DKIM Signing to Proposed Standard, in order to fix an edge 
condition that is only a theoretical issue and only fixes a problem that is 
actually outside of the scope of what DKIM is trying to achieve?

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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