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Re: Good as the enemy of OK

2005-01-18 02:36:33

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, John Levine wrote:

per-message callback verification lookup

Seems to me that's a potential cost of any multi-key system.  Even if
you only have, say, two real keys, a bad guy can send out spam with a
different fake key in each message and you'll get a DNS hit from each
one.

A very good point.

Tony.
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