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Re: For SPF council review: Policy for shared MTAs

2005-05-12 08:53:57
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Julian Mehnle wrote:
--- draft-schlitt-spf-classic-01pre5.xml
+++ draft-schlitt-spf-classic-01pre5+mehnle_cross-customer_forgery.xml
[...]
@@ -2015,4 +2018,23 @@
         </t>
       </section>
+      <section title="Cross-User Forgery" anchor="cross-user-forgery">
+        <t>
+          By definition, SPF policies just map domain names to sets of
+          authorized MTAs, not entire e-mail addresses to sets of
+          authorized users.  Although the "l" macro (<xref
+          target="macros"/>) provides a limited way to define
+          individual sets of authorized MTAs for specific e-mail
+          addresses, through SPF it is generally impossible to
+          authenticate the use of specific e-mail addresses by
+          individual users of the same MTA.
+        </t>

s{through SPF it is generally impossible to authenticate}
 {it is generally impossible to authenticate, through SPF,}

+        <t>
+          It is up to mail services and their MTAs to directly
+          prevent cross-user forgery: based on SMTP AUTH (<xref
+          target="RFC2554"/>), users should be restricted to use only
+          those e-mail addresses that are actually under their control.
+          Another means to authenticate the identity of individual
+          users is message cryptography such as PGP or S/MIME.
+        </t>
+      </section>

s/restricted to use/restricted to using/

       <section title="Spoofed DNS and IP Data">
         <t>
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