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Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-rfc4871bis-07 // Attacks Involving Additional Header Fields

2011-04-27 13:25:46
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:29:35 +0100, Dave CROCKER <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> 
wrote:

DKIM doesn't create any binding between the RFC5322.From domain and the  
"d="
value as you're doing.  What you're talking about here falls into the  
realm
of ADSP or other policy-like assertions, not DKIM itself which is the  
topic
of this draft.


Perhaps I am wrong, but I believe that this point has been made and  
re-made
enough times to warrant not making it again.

Not so. DKIM specifically requires that the From header be included in the  
signature. Hence end users (and that included verifiers) are entitled to  
assume that if there is a valid signature, then "the" From header that  
they see before them was signed. So there does already exist a binding  
quite independently of ADSP or reputation suystems, or any other "addons".

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