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Re: Narrow the scope: no new email signature protocol

2004-10-05 16:16:10

At 02:31 PM 10/5/2004 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
 In the small we are talking about a signature that is valid
 from an initiator to a responder, and then discarded by the
 responder.  It creates a new signature as an initiator for
 the next responder.

i think that accurately represents the current proposals.  

does anyone disagree?

Depends on what you mean by an initiator and responder.  Are we talking about 
MTA hop by MTA hop here?  If so, I disagree.  I feel that a signature from the 
original sender (From address) is a stronger and more desirable statement than 
an intermediary, so I would keep that signature around in case it still works.  
Intermediaries that modify the message should re-sign, and perhaps delete any 
existing intermediary signature.

So I guess I'm thinking somewhere between "small" and "large".

-Jim


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