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Re: DKIM: c=simple is aspirational

2005-07-21 08:37:08

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Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
Also, Earl Hood wrote

Since DKIM makes allows digitally signing of message bodies,
there is an implicit indication that message content can be "protected"
via DKIM.

Implicit indications aren 't very helpful.  But we can certainly say
that DKIM + base64 protects the content.  Perhaps we should explicitly
recommend base64 for anyone who wants this kind of absolute fidelity? 
I've long believed that if you don't use base64, you shouldn't expect
that kind of fidelity.  -- Nathaniel

Except in the case of content consisting of type multipart/* or
message/*. Those can't be recursively encoded with base64 or
quoted-printable.

        Tony Hansen
        tony(_at_)att(_dot_)com
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