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Re: [ietf-dkim] New canonicalizations

2011-05-22 09:49:00
Interesting, but not less intricate.  The semantics of authenticating
only the armored part of a message is not obvious.  Resorting to
base64 encoding is subject to varying interpretations, including
spammers attempts to avoid naive content filtering.

S/MIME and PGP MIME have been doing just that, authenticating just an
armored MIME body, for close to 20 years.  Your MUA probably has
support for S/MIME built in.  This is a wheel we do not need to
reinvent.

R's,
John

Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

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