> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levine [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:31 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Subject: Re: [marf] New Version Notification - 
> draft-ietf-marf-authfailure-report-03.txt
> 
> >I'm a little worried about the "send one report per authentication
> >failure" because if I send a message with twenty bogus signatures
> >bearing your domain name, that's an amplification attack.
> 
> I suppose, although if I want to mailbomb you indirectly, it's not
> noticably harder to send 20 messages each with one bogus signature.
> Until now, all of the major use of ARF was to send back mail to the
> actual sender, so you could never get more reports than you sent mail.
> This thing solicits reports of mail sent by other people so the risk
> of indirect mailbomb is in inherent in it.

Sounds like fodder for Security Considerations then.

> >It's covered by "ext-field" in Section 3.5 of RFC5965, isn't it?
> 
> Not if they're supposed to go into the repeating groups.

Oops, right.

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