On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:05:49 +0100, McDowell, Brett <bmcdow...@paypal-inc.com> wrote:
> John, this particular part of the discussion is not about changing the > RFC or DKIM implementations, only changing deployment configuration > practices. Exactly so. All I am trying to do is to ensure that those who engage in deployment should be warned of these particular dangers, but everyone is trying to shout me down. I have posted a wording (and even a revision of same). Do you agree with or oppose that wording. Please say. > >> to make to avoid the horrors of a duplicate From: attack that is and >> likely will >> always be entirely hypothetical, I think is is clear that these attacks will work if deployers fail to watch out for them. The only question is how long it will take the Bad Guys to spot the opportunities (and for sure they WILL spot them - sooner probably than later). -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: c...@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html