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Re: [ietf-dkim] New canonicalizations

2011-05-16 12:53:35
On 16/May/11 19:00, Michael Thomas wrote:
On 05/16/2011 09:39 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
The problem with the above is the biasing factor of signers' choosing to use 
one
or the other, based on criteria we can't know about.  Their criteria might 
have
greatly affected actual survival rates.  Or might not have...

My guess is that admins just don't understand any of the subtleties,
have heard lore that "relaxed" is "better" and just click "relaxed"
wherever they find it. It may also be the case that some implementations
don't even have separate nerd knobs for headers and body canonicalization.

However, Murray's stats show some difference in the choice of relaxed:

Header canonicalization use:
canonicalization        count   domains passed
simple                  653688  6786    591938
relaxed                 3940377 56621   3640854

Body canonicalization use:
canonicalization        count   domains passed
simple                  1187858 11526   1096204
relaxed                 3406207 51818   3136588

For the body count, we have 74% relaxed vs 26% simple, while it is 86%
relaxed vs 14% simple for the header.  There is a 12% difference
toward relaxing the header, which implies some thought or testing.
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