> -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- > boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Alessandro Vesely > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:55 PM > To: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org > Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Broken signatures, was Why mailing lists > should strip them > > Yet, it would seem that by, say, hashing just invariants of binary > representations of the first entity, e.g. discarding its white space > and punctuation, one may reach very high percentages of unbroken > retransmission.
This sounds like what DomainKeys (RFC4870) called "nofws" canonicalization, which was discarded in favour of what is now "relaxed" in DKIM. I don't specifically recall the reasons now but I'm sure they're in the archives if someone else cares to dig that far back. _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
