Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-26 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Roland Turner roland.tur...@trustsphere.com wrote: This appears to be the inverse of the use case that was originally put forward (we're concerned that we're signing rubbish, please disregard signatures made with this selector); the very case that you're

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-26 Thread Dave Crocker
On 7/23/2012 8:20 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net mailto:d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Here are two small tweaks that might correct things: y This domain is testing DKIM. Verifiers MUST NOT treat messages

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Barry Leiba
That customer brought up an interesting point. t=y could also be useful for messages whose signatures do verify. Specifically, it could be used by a signer to say It's possible this message shouldn't have been signed by us. Please don't give it any preferential treatment based on our name's

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Richard Dawe rich.d...@messagesystems.comwrote: Do you think that DMARC provides a better way of testing your DKIM signatures than DKIM's t=y? E.g.: p=none DMARC policy. I don't understand what you're after here. How would a mail receiver apply p=none as

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: There seems like there are many things wrong with this sort of helpfulness. If a given selector is dodgy, the reputation system should figure that out for itself. Believing even a vaguely positive-assertion from the source

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Barry Leiba
But more to the point, it seems that this isn't a specific we're testing our system issue, but a separate issue related to reputation: Do not use signatures made with this key as input to your evaluation of our reputation. It would seem best to propose a new tag, in a DKIM extension, for

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.orgwrote: Should't have been signed by us clearly can't mean that someone stole the private key or otherwise hacked things, so you're saying, Our processes might not be set up right, and we might be signing crap sent by bad

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Dave Crocker
On 7/21/2012 9:50 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: That customer brought up an interesting point. t=y could also be useful for messages whose signatures do verify. Specifically, it could be used by a signer to say It's possible this message shouldn't have been signed by us. Please don't

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 07/23/2012 06:47 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com mailto:m...@mtcc.com wrote: There seems like there are many things wrong with this sort of helpfulness. If a given selector is dodgy, the reputation system should

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 07/23/2012 06:13 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: That customer brought up an interesting point. t=y could also be useful for messages whose signatures do verify. Specifically, it could be used by a signer to say It's possible this message shouldn't have been signed by us. Please don't give it

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Here are two small tweaks that might correct things: y This domain is testing DKIM. Verifiers MUST NOT treat messages from Signers in testing mode differently from unsigned email. This covers

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Hector Santos
Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Here are two small tweaks that might correct things: y This domain is testing DKIM. Verifiers MUST NOT treat messages from Signers in testing mode differently from unsigned

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-23 Thread Hector Santos
Barry Leiba wrote: That said, I'm inclined to agree with Mike T that input from the reputation target is suspicious, so it's not clear how much value it will have nor whether it might be gamed (by the reputation target) or hacked (by someone wanting to hurt the target's reputation). It

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-22 Thread John R. Levine
I've opened a ticket to arrange that t=y suppresses any positive impact domain reputation has in the next version of OpenDKIM, as an experiment. I'm inclined to leave well enough alone. That wouldn't have been an unreasonable interpretation six years ago when DKIM was new, but this is the

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-22 Thread Hector Santos
Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: And you thought this list was dead. I was asked to consult recently on some DKIM questions raised by a customer of a former employer. The questions involved the meaning of t= in DKIM keys and the text in RFC6376. The focus of this tag has always been, to the

Re: [ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-22 Thread Hector Santos
John R. Levine wrote: I've opened a ticket to arrange that t=y suppresses any positive impact domain reputation has in the next version of OpenDKIM, as an experiment. I'm inclined to leave well enough alone. That wouldn't have been an unreasonable interpretation six years ago when DKIM was

[ietf-dkim] The good ol' t= tag in key records

2012-07-21 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
And you thought this list was dead. I was asked to consult recently on some DKIM questions raised by a customer of a former employer. The questions involved the meaning of t= in DKIM keys and the text in RFC6376. The focus of this tag has always been, to the best of my recollection, the notion