[dmarc-ietf] Re: New attack leveraging DMARC None

2024-05-08 Thread Mark Alley
) seal ARC, workarounds like this are unfortunately necessary. - Mark Alley On Wed, May 8, 2024, 5:48 AM Laura Atkins wrote: > > > On 8 May 2024, at 02:25, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 7, 2024 9:09:02 PM EDT Mark Alley wrote: > > On 5/7/2024 7:00 PM, Dot

[dmarc-ietf] Re: New attack leveraging DMARC None

2024-05-07 Thread Mark Alley
that would be acceptable language in an Standards track document to encourage urgency behind a transitory state of p=none use by domain owners? Would that even make sense to do? (Legitimate question for the WG) - Mark Alley ___ dmarc mailing list -- dmar

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis WGLC - Issue 141 DMARC and What To Say About SPF -all

2024-04-07 Thread Mark Alley
in the thread), there's still valid, expected, and reasonable use cases of it as it stands today. Personally, I don't see a need for it to be deprecated. - Mark Alley On 4/7/2024 7:52 AM, Neil Anuskiewicz wrote: Forgive me if this a dumb idea but, Scott and others, any discussion of just deprecating SPF

Re: [dmarc-ietf] WGLC editorial review of draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-30

2024-03-31 Thread Mark Alley
now any better. I don't think it's fair to characterize SPF -all's entire usage based on the assumption everyone knows what it does, when reality demonstrates otherwise. - Mark Alley ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC result for DKIM testing and policy

2024-03-21 Thread Mark Alley
Agreed as well. It's worth calling out, IMO. - Mark Alley ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis WGLC Issue 136 - DMARC Records Can Be CNAMEs

2024-03-14 Thread Mark Alley
presumed the reader has a working conceptual understanding of DNS; I see your point how it could add only more questions. - Mark Alley ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis WGLC Issue 136 - DMARC Records Can Be CNAMEs

2024-03-14 Thread Mark Alley
On 3/14/2024 3:49 PM, Todd Herr wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 4:43 PM Mark Alley wrote: On 3/14/2024 3:38 PM, Todd Herr wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 4:34 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: I think this is correct.  I think it's obviously enough correct that I'm

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis WGLC Issue 136 - DMARC Records Can Be CNAMEs

2024-03-14 Thread Mark Alley
- Mark Alley On 3/14/2024 3:38 PM, Todd Herr wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 4:34 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: I think this is correct.  I think it's obviously enough correct that I'm surprised anyone was confused. Do we know what the theory was that led people to think otherwise

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis WGLC Issue 136 - DMARC Records Can Be CNAMEs

2024-03-14 Thread Mark Alley
If we need some real world examples of this, got a few here: _dmarc.oit.alabama.gov _dmarc.tjx.com _dmarc.walmart.com _dmarc.novanta.com - Mark Alley On 3/14/2024 3:18 PM, Todd Herr wrote: Colleagues, There was a discussion among M3AAWG members on March 13 that centered on the question

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Fwd: The sad state of SPF: research just presented at NDSS

2024-03-12 Thread Mark Alley
or willful negligence. - Mark Alley ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis WGLC Significant(ish) Issue - Section 7.6

2024-02-29 Thread Mark Alley
questions of the WG about these two sections in the future, because they're not consistent. - Mark Alley On 2/29/2024 1:47 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Okay. I think 8.6 is the one in error. You see how this is going to go, right? Scott K On February 29, 2024 7:45:15 PM UTC, Todd Herr wrote

Re: [dmarc-ietf] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-29.txt

2024-01-09 Thread Mark Alley
of the section seems pretty clear to me (barring the suggestion I raised for clarification), if you publish a strict DMARC policy, one also wants to sign valid, aligned DKIM as well to pass DMARC. - Mark Alley On 1/9/2024 7:07 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Alessandro Vesely skrev den 2024-01-09 12:35

Re: [dmarc-ietf] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-29.txt

2024-01-02 Thread Mark Alley
cure a DMARC pass, and *MUST *apply valid *aligned *DKIM signatures to their messages./" - Mark Alley On 1/2/2024 2:30 PM, Mark Alley wrote: Quick question I had while re-reading 8.6 - for this text below, might just be me on this one though. "/It is therefore critical that domains

Re: [dmarc-ietf] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarcbis-29.txt

2024-01-02 Thread Mark Alley
valid DKIM signature, not one that specifically aligned with their domain. - Mark Alley On 1/2/2024 2:12 PM, Todd Herr wrote: Revision 28 was due to expire this weekend, so I tweaked the language a bit in section 8.6 in response to the thread Francesca started here - https://mailarchive.ietf.or

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis way forward: Do we need our session at IETF 118

2023-10-29 Thread Mark Alley
of time before we see any semblance of ubiquitous adoption. I'm on the fence currently about the auth= method. - Mark Alley On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 2:35 PM Douglas Foster < dougfoster.emailstanda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reporting allows certainty within the limits of the reporting mechan

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis way forward: Do we need our session at IETF 118

2023-10-29 Thread Mark Alley
filtering; if a sender used the latter two (~ or -) instead of neutral (?), it would only cause more issues. But as you stated, I agree the handling of the neutral qualifier is most likely non-standardized across the internet. - Mark Alley On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 1:39 AM Wei Chuang wrote: >

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARCbis way forward: Do we need our session at IETF 118

2023-10-28 Thread Mark Alley
painting a potato red, and calling it a tomato. It still tastes like a potato. -Mark Alley On Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 3:04 PM Emanuel Schorsch wrote: > As to why, I don't think there's a valid use case and the proponents for >> this haven't really thought it through. As an example, someone

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Jumping the Gun

2023-10-25 Thread Mark Alley
rs rolling non-standard DMARC evaluation logic with liberal interpretations of expected syntax and tags, even though the ABNF and section 5.3 are explicit with instruction on how to proceed in those cases. - Mark Alley ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Dmarcbis way forward

2023-10-24 Thread Mark Alley
+1 for SHOULD NOT. On Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 12:14 PM Matt V wrote: > I also agree that "SHOULD NOT" would be my vote as the preferred language > going forward. > > ~ > Matt > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 12:41 PM Dotzero wrote: > >> I'd like to first thank Francesca for taking the time to review

Re: [dmarc-ietf] What happens when the DMARC record contains two identical tags?

2023-07-24 Thread Mark Alley
lly implied through the existing ABNF(s), but given the simplicity and conciseness of the language Murray provided from the DKIM RFC, I concur it may be worth at least stating it explicitly for clarity in bis. - Mark Alley ___ dmarc mailing list dm

Re: [dmarc-ietf] What happens when the DMARC record contains two identical tags?

2023-07-24 Thread Mark Alley
  [dmarc-sep]    ; components other than dmarc-version and    ; dmarc-request may appear in any order - Mark Alley On 7/24/2023 10:05 AM, OLIVIER HUREAU wrote: I am wondering how a parser should behave when the record contains two identical tags. i.e: 'v=DMARC1; p=none;

Re: [dmarc-ietf] How did DMARC go wrong, and how does our document fix it?

2023-07-20 Thread Mark Alley
To supplement Oliver's reply, and Doug's question, most commercial secure email gateways are capable of this in terms of granular inbound email authentication customization. (Proofpoint, Mimecast, Cisco, Barracuda, etc.) - Mark Alley On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 4:15 AM OLIVIER HUREAU < olivier.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Eliminating From Munging from this list

2023-07-19 Thread Mark Alley
On 7/19/2023 8:10 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 12:27 AM Alessandro Vesely wrote: > How do you determine that an evaluator is enforcing DMARC "against lists"? That assumes there are lists that don't munge From:.  Is that real today? I wasn't aware

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-18 Thread Mark Alley
- reject (wv.gov) - Mark Alley On 4/18/2023 5:25 PM, Jim Fenton wrote: On 9 Apr 2023, at 11:33, Barry Leiba wrote: There is an alternative, though: we can acknowledge that because of how those deploying DMARC view their needs over interoperability, DMARC is not appropriate as an IETF standard

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-14 Thread Mark Alley
own issues and workarounds. If I'm being honest, given the different versions put forth so far, it seems like this type of language is closer to the compromise on the interoperability statement. The other versions say relatively the same thing. - Mark Alley On Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 7:08 PM Scott Kitter

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Author vs Signer Domains

2023-04-14 Thread Mark Alley
mechanism check." No ESP I'm aware of evaluates a DMARC failure result if *any* of the authentication methods produces a failure. That is definitely not expected behavior. Do you have examples of any ESPs that deviate from this? - Mark Alley On Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 8:42 PM Hector Santos wrote:

Re: [dmarc-ietf] General-purpose domains with users from the general public MUST NOT use p=reject

2023-04-14 Thread Mark Alley
I can agree with the premise of this version. This expanded definition of "general purpose" domains makes it somewhat more clear what/who the intended target for the language is. - Mark Alley On Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 4:16 AM Matthäus Wander wrote: > Barry Leiba wrote on 202

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Signaling forwarders, not just MLMs

2023-04-13 Thread Mark Alley
+1 On 4/13/2023 10:21 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: Anyone who does forwarding is damaged by DMARC because there are a lot of people who do DMARC on the cheap with SPF only. This brings up another issue, I think: that there should also be stronger advice that using DKIM is critical to DMARC

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Weakening of enforcement concern

2023-04-11 Thread Mark Alley
a statement about perceived security benefits of strict DMARC policies... - My hope is that should be sufficient enough of a compromise to address everyone's concerns. - Mark Alley On 4/11/2023 10:15 AM, Neil Anuskiewicz wrote: On Apr 11, 2023, at 4:29 AM, Douglas Foster wrote:  Neil, I am

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-10 Thread Mark Alley
rate receivers handle the policy. Point is, it seems conflicting to have two documents telling (and expecting) domain owners to do different things. - Mark Alley On 4/9/2023 1:33 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > As Todd previously stated, my preference is for language that > acknowledges the pri

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-08 Thread Mark Alley
Personally, I prefer the latter of the two, quoted below. "to preserve interoperability, domains SHOULD NOT publish p=reject unless they are [not general purpose]* domains" "Publishing DMARC records with restrictive policies does cause interoperability problems for some normal email usage

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-04-08 Thread Mark Alley
Re-looking at the definition of "SHOULD NOT", I don't see why it can't be considered. "SHOULD NOT - This phrase, or the phrase "NOT RECOMMENDED" mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances when the particular behavior is acceptable or even useful, but the full

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-04-01 Thread Mark Alley
Depending on the definition of "valid reason", is not "An organization wants unauthenticated mail to be rejected" a valid reason? Although, with the noted interoperability issues, I'm not sure if it qualifies. On Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 1:53 AM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Example of Indirect Mail Flow Breakage with p=reject?

2023-03-30 Thread Mark Alley
+1 to Todd's statement, this sums up my views on this as well. On 3/30/2023 9:16 AM, Todd Herr wrote: On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 7:55 PM Barry Leiba wrote: 1. IETF has installed a very ugly workaround to the problem, rewriting the "from" header field.  It's absolutely a workaround,

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-03-29 Thread Mark Alley
es are still delivered. There have been outliers, of course, but they are dealt with by the organizations on a case-by-case basis, which, to date, have been less than a handful. - Mark Alley On 3/29/2023 3:59 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Would you feel any better if the MUST NOT was followed by '

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Proposed text for p=reject and indirect mail flows

2023-03-28 Thread Mark Alley
I know that M3 is totally separate from this group, but this is more-so a question for Todd H- does this mean that the M3AAWG authentication best practices recommendation will also change based on this if this is the intended usage going forwards with DMARCbis? Quote from the existing

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC Dependency?

2023-03-25 Thread Mark Alley
as to when an ARC set is applied. Possibly by giving sealing condition capabilities to the customer? - Mark Alley On Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 6:18 PM Seth Blank wrote: > Microsoft is using ARC quite heavily, and has reported on this list and at > M3AAWG of the impact it makes > &

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Treewalk causing changes

2023-03-09 Thread Mark Alley
Okay. That was my understanding, but wanted to make sure it was crystal clear. Thanks for the clarification. On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 2:53 PM John Levine wrote: > It appears that Mark Alley said: > >-=-=-=-=-=- > > > >This question probably has an obvious answer, but asking

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Treewalk causing changes

2023-03-09 Thread Mark Alley
? - Mark Alley On 2/23/2023 6:13 PM, John R. Levine wrote: I haven’t done extensive research but here is a live example where treewalk will cause a result change. From: is in the domain Ret.bmcc.cuny.edu which has no DMARC record. _dmarc.bmcc.cuny.edu.300INTXT"v=DMARC1; p=quara

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Treewalk causing changes

2023-02-28 Thread Mark Alley
It does vary widely, agreed; I believe knowing how the behavior changes can affect existing implementation and common usage scenarios may be useful for at least consideration of its effects on domain owners. On 2/28/2023 6:58 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 9:51 AM

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Treewalk causing changes

2023-02-28 Thread Mark Alley
ew outliers are also following the same structure, the subdomain zones for an agency not under jurisdiction of OIT are delegated to their respective agency, of which has a separate DMARC record and policy that were created during implementation. - Mark Alley On 2/28/2023 11:51 AM, Alessandro

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Treewalk causing changes

2023-02-28 Thread Mark Alley
I agree with Laura's stance. Many organizations (that are not PSDs, and not on a PSL) will publish explicit subdomain-specific DMARC policies to prevent inheritance from a higher level, or the organizational domain (which may not be ready for a stricter policy), during implementation. This is

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Integrating ARC and DMARC to address the mailing list problem.

2022-12-11 Thread Mark Alley
I'm of the opinion this goes back to Todd Herr's topic on the ARC ML (Topic: Simplifying the Decision to Trust an ARC Header Set) as to whether a validator trusts a sealer's results to be "true and correct". With the method this is currently handled in adding of false DKIM results, how can a

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Does Aggregate Reporting meet "Internet Scale" test?

2022-12-11 Thread Mark Alley
level.  They would also reduce the risk of unwanted data leakage. But I am willing to be convinced.  Can someone explain how success reports, message counts, or unaligned signatures serve a domain owner purpose which is relevant to DMARC? Doug On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 7:56 AM Mark A

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Does Aggregate Reporting meet "Internet Scale" test?

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Alley
Adding clarification since I forgot to specify - this would be per-sender per-source. Not a set percentage of all mail received from a source, that obviously would not work as intended. On 12/8/2022 6:52 AM, Mark Alley wrote: This may have been thought of before, so forgive the potentially

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Does Aggregate Reporting meet "Internet Scale" test?

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Alley
This may have been thought of before, so forgive the potentially duplicate idea, I was musing earlier about feedback reporting based on a percent of the overall mail per-source. I'm thinking of something similar in concept to the pct= tag for published policy. This would reduce the overhead

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Missing participation from big tech members

2022-11-20 Thread Mark Alley
And I don't think I have seen any reporting from icloud.com. So, as you noted, what we're left with are gaping holes in data reporting with some of the largest ESP's, one can only hope they eventually decide to share with the rest of the world. - Mark Alley On 11/20/2022 11:16 AM, Douglas