ietf-dkim
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [ietf-dkim] Interesting recent statistics

2011-02-08 17:35:39
Hi, Murray,

On 2/8/11 8:31 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

A few statistics OpenDKIM captured recently that might amuse some of you:


Interesting figures!

1) There's a slow but steady increase in signed message rates: http://www.opendkim.org/stats/report.html#signing_trend (ignore the first row, that month was skewed; also the current month is, of course, incomplete)


Good news! Although... we don't know whether the increase is due to spammers that adopt DKIM or legit senders adopting DKIM.

2) "To:" is now far and away the most munged header field invalidating signatures: http://www.opendkim.org/stats/report.html#broken_headers

3) Overall pass rates are pretty high, even when they transit MLMs: http://www.opendkim.org/stats/report.html#passfail


What I don't understand here, what's what. I see four figures:

Signatures: 1362786 Ignored: 482 Pass: 1275158 Failed (body): 16027

But this row does not provide the correct pass/fail rate in total, does it? I thought the pass rate was (1,362,786 - 16,020) / (1,362,786), or if we subtract the ignored: (1,362,786 - 482 - 16,020) / (1,362,786). This, however, is not correct: the number of failed is not the total number of failed, only the body failed (as is indicated). Is it possible to add a fifth figure: failed (header), to this row in order to have a complete list of figures?

4) Oddly, signed messages with huge numbers of Received: header fields almost always pass verification, including one with 39 of them: http://www.opendkim.org/stats/report.html#received_correlation (let's see SPF do that!),


+1

though that message was ultimately rejected for having too many Received: fields.


Too bad ;-)

/rolf

_______________________________________________
NOTE WELL: This list operates according to 
http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>