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Re: The cost of choices

2005-07-28 18:47:51

On July 28, 2005 at 16:57, Jim Fenton wrote:

And to extend it further, the SSP should provide the ability to
list which domains are allowed to do third-party signing.  Otherwise,
if it is boolean switch, turning on the switch open you up to
spoofing attacks.

If someone outside the domain is an authorized sender, how about 
delegating a key (selector) to them so that they can apply a first-party 
signature?  This can either be done on an individual-selector basis, or 
it's even possible to delegate a selector hierarchy 
(*.outsource._domainkey.example.com) to them.

I'm not seeing how this prevents a malicious domain from spoofing
the OP identity if the OP has third-party signatures enabled?

If you can provide a more detailed example, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

--ewh

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