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Re: (foreign language encoded in ) Re: the inevitability of SRS

2004-01-13 20:12:12
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:44:09PM -0800, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote:
| 
| >I'm not sure that you can do this. In particular, E cannot know 
| >whether the previous entry had the correct hash or not. I think that 
| >the only solution is to use a database to perform the mapping. I'd be 
| >inclined to HMAC the sender using a secret key. Then just send the 
| >message on with bounce-<hash> as the sender. You need to store the 
| >mapping from hash to sender in a database, along with some timeouts. 
| >I'm not entirely certain why we should use an HMAC rather than a hash, 
| >but it seems to provide a little extra security for very little extra 
| >cost.
| 
| I am considering how to implement SRS in my forwarder as well.   The 
| disadvantage of not including the original sender is that you make it 
| impossible for the recipient to usefully filter on the envelope sender.
| 

Personally I think the 64 char limit is ridiculously short.   Who
actually uses that limit?


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