I very much disagree with everything the above poster said. 

Deniability is a default property of all e2ee messaging apps; it’s both 
surprising and disheartening that email — a largely unencrypted medium — fails 
to provide deniability for its users. If we said that signal was behaving this 
way, or TLS, or any other e2ee protocol, we’d be up in arms. 

==Mike

> On Dec 6, 2022, at 12:11 PM, Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Murray wrote:
> 
> >> Post-delivery survival of the signature is not only not a goal, it is
> >> arguably (or possibly demonstrably) a problem.
> 
> 
> > Can we say more about this if we're going to take that position?  A naked
> > "not a goal" doesn't jive with RFC 4686, which explicitly says it is a
> > goal, or at least that it was one.
> 
> > I guess that means it comes down to making an argument about what
> > experience has shown us: Does Barry's use case, plus the Thunderbird
> > plug-in use case, together carry more weight than the perceived problem
> > that replay causes?
> 
> > Also, a reminder that the WG hasn't actually rechartered yet; maybe some of
> > these debates should wait until that's happened.
> 
> 
> I completely disagree with the notion that signatures should be removed. I 
> don't recall it ever being discussed one way or the other, so saying that it 
> is "not a goal" is just a bald assertion. Having the signature survive has 
> forensic value, for better or worse. Yes, and there is "for better" too. Not 
> to mention that MUA's have a stake in this too. Nothing requires MDA's to 
> create an Auth-Res header, for example. Plus there is information in the 
> signature header that can be useful for MUA's.  
> 
> Also: this is clearly BCP material that everybody is free to ignore. There 
> are no interoperability considerations.
> 
> This working group should go back to sleep.
> 
> Mike
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