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Re: (DEPLOY) In Support of Sender ID

2004-09-03 00:24:22

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:06:49PM -0700, Rand Wacker wrote:

For this reason, it may end up being the case that Sender ID can not
reliably prevent spoofing for messages that take complex paths; but there
is some solace in that these complex paths are usually managed by the
*receiver*.

But what prevents a malicious individual to either set up such complex
path himself or pretend that the message is travelling through such a
complex path? As I understand it, the 2822 headers are easy to make up
yourself (in fact, the senderid documents endorse doing this), which
makes it easy to fool the senderid check.

Koen

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