ietf-dkim
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [ietf-dkim] layer violations, was detecting header mutations after signing

2010-10-15 08:41:49
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:01:25 +0100, Michael Thomas <mike(_at_)mtcc(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

Because the audience who ought to be dealing with the larger problem has  
little to
nothing to do with the audience that would have to deal with that  
MUST/SHOULD.
It's a useless requirement to put on DKIM.

So which two audiences do you have in mind?

The primary audience is the people who write verifiers for boundaries.

The end users are hardly an audience at all since they are not listening  
directly to us, and they are likely using software that is 10 years old,  
and are unlikely to change.

-- 
Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------
Tel: +44 161 436 6131                       
   Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl
Email: chl(_at_)clerew(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk      Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K.
PGP: 2C15F1A9      Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5
_______________________________________________
NOTE WELL: This list operates according to 
http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>