Jeremy Harris wrote in
 <f6c69262-dd36-5dbe-c2d0-23e39407e...@wizmail.org>:
 |On 09/08/2023 21:12, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
 |>> It seems to me that adding a per-recipient DKIM "sub-signature"
 |>> can be accomplished very cheaply, and "scales to
 |>> super-parallelism".
 |>>
 |> If by that you mean a distinct signing key per user, I don't think this
 |> scales.
 |
 |If you signed per-recipient a new 5321 option on the RCPT command,
 |using the sending domain key, but mixing the 5321 recipient into the sig?

>From my perspective that was just a brain fart of mine.

 |Yes, it's more signing to do, so more work for the sending MTA.  But no
 |scaling issue for keys.

It seems to me the approach would have potential to create
complete trust chains in between senders and receivers, and as
such replace other email processing.

 |I guess you'd still want the trad DKIM sig in the headers for back-compat.
 |Possibly add a marker to that to say the new method was also used, so
 |that new-aware receiving MTAs don't accept it for replay.
 |
 |(Yes, it doesn't survive a further indirect mailflow step)

But only that rcpt-to:<> addition, not the cryptographically
verifiable sub-signature.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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