"Sorry, I think what you're looking for isnt useful, you're misinformed" isn't 
exactly a useful response when someone,
especially a customer, asks for something, sadly.

On 7/11/20 3:02 PM, John Levine wrote:
> In article <4ac6b77b-375b-4cc0-b2f5-84f769683...@as397444.net> you write:
>> More like “customer sees that DKIM is used to authenticate DNC leaks, 
>> decides that DKIM is a
>> terrible idea for a political entity to have on, let alone any random 
>> business”.
> 
> Sounds like a customer deep into cypherpunk silliness.
> 
> For one thing, while it was kind of cute that we could still check the
> DKIM signatures on old DNC mail (I did) that's only because Gmail
> never rotates their keys. The signing key was still in the DNS.
> Monthly key rotation like I do should be plenty to avoid that unless
> messages are leaking in close to real time, in which case DKIM is the
> least of your problems.
> 
> The other is that nobody I know found the DKIM validation to be more
> than a curiosity. People believed the messages were real because they
> knew who used the account and they were otherwise plausible. There was
> no cryptographic signature on the Pentagon papers in 1971 but that
> doesn't seem to have been any impediment to people taking them
> seriously.
> 
> R's,
> John
> 

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