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Re: [ietf-dkim] Output summary - Keep your Eye on the Prize!

2011-05-05 15:37:18
On 05/04/2011 08:34 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
Technical: The AUID is an unvetted value.  The local-part and the subdomain 
could be garbage.  It's inappropriate for a security protocol to return a 
possibly false value in the context of saying something was cryptographically 
validated.
   

I don't think this is correct. The signer creates and signs the i= value,
so it's not "garbage", and it can't be "false" either. I don't even know
what false means in this context. It's just a value which  is guaranteed
to be within the to the d= domain's bailiwick.

Mike
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