Re: [dmarc-ietf] Doing a tree walk rather than PSL lookup

2020-11-24 Thread Doug Foster
Better a correct answer slowly than an incorrect answer quickly. For the existing PSL, it is not just the accuracy of the document itself, but also the accuracy of the parsing process. Is there a well-trusted parser floating around? DF From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On

Re: [dmarc-ietf] org domain and dns-perimeter draft

2020-11-24 Thread Doug Foster
fix, so I don't know that mimicking a public suffix is a problem. The only caveat is that we need a maximum depth to limit malicious DNS structures intended to waste search effort by evaluators. Doug Foster -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Be

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Second WGLC for draft-ietf-dmarc-psd: Definition of NP

2020-11-23 Thread Doug Foster
slightly less problematic. Doug Foster From: Tim Wicinski [mailto:tjw.i...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:04 PM To: fost...@bayviewphysicians.com Cc: IETF DMARC WG Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Second WGLC for draft-ietf-dmarc-psd: Definition of NP Doug In looking for

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC questions

2020-11-23 Thread Doug Foster
My wishlist for ARC: ARC tells me that somebody changed some data, but it does not tell me which MTA performed the forwarding operation, added content, or performed address rewriting. If we could get HELO names into the ARC data, then those names could be correlated with the Received header

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Second WGLC for draft-ietf-dmarc-psd: Definition of NP

2020-11-20 Thread Doug Foster
To return briefly to the muddy waters that I created. John is correct that "mail enabled" is not useful for the RFC5322.From address, and my last note expanded on reasons why that is correct. However, spoofing of non-existent subdomains is a potential problem for the RFC5321.MailFrom domain, w

[dmarc-ietf] How does PSD for DMARC affect tree walk issue?

2020-11-19 Thread Doug Foster
because it seems to be moving us closer to the performance implications of a scope-limited tree walk. Doug Foster ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Second WGLC for draft-ietf-dmarc-psd: Definition of NP

2020-11-17 Thread Doug Foster
DMARC clearly intends for the NP policy to be a general solution to a general problem.If there are still objections to it becoming a general solution, this should be addressed soon. Doug Foster From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Tim Wicinski Sent: Friday, November

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Organizational domains, threat or menage, was On splitting documents and DBOUND

2020-11-11 Thread Doug Foster
It appears that these tickets are all related to this issue: #24 objection to maintaining registry for all participating public suffixes #34 Define the term "Public Suffix" referencing RFC8499 #46 Separate org domain definition from core DMARC #58 Add third l

Re: [dmarc-ietf] On splitting documents and DBOUND

2020-11-11 Thread Doug Foster
more sustainable than what we have right now. DF From: Murray S. Kucherawy [mailto:superu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:02 PM To: Doug Foster Cc: IETF DMARC WG Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] On splitting documents and DBOUND On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 6:01 AM Douglas E

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Optional p= makes no sense

2020-11-09 Thread Doug Foster
I would be content with language that says: If an evaluator detects a DMARC record without a policy tag, it MAY reject the record as invalid or it MAY treat the record as equivalent to p=none. Consequently, domain owners SHOULD include a p= tag, as the recipient action is otherwise unpredictabl

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Can we consider some process changes to speed attainment of conclusions?

2020-09-25 Thread Doug Foster
It appeared to me that adoption had the plurality of votes, by my estimate something like 6 to 3. But the objections to the document were substantial and the proponents of proceeding said nothing during the call to indicate that those objections can be mitigated. One of those problems is “

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Issue submission - Mailing list security and potential solutions using DMARC

2020-09-16 Thread Doug Foster
and AOL was not willing to create exceptions. I understand the perceived inconvenience of a rewritten From address. But I see the network of trust only enhanced, not diminished, by the DMARC mechanism. Doug Foster -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On

Re: [dmarc-ietf] AutoForward problems - Change log benefits to mailing lists

2020-09-08 Thread Doug Foster
, actual spoofing of the From address is not a huge part of my problem at present. This is largely because spammers have easy enough tools in Friendly Name spoofing and corporate logo misuse. But I also attribute that low volume to the existence of SPF and DMARC. Doug Foster From

Re: [dmarc-ietf] AutoForward problems

2020-09-03 Thread Doug Foster
n administrator to disable all forwarding from any account. I do not think I have seen admin-controlled selective forwarding, but others have more product experience than I do. Doug Foster -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Thompson Sent: Thur

Re: [dmarc-ietf] third party authorization, not, was non-mailing list

2020-08-26 Thread Doug Foster
Are the weak signatures vulnerable to a replay attack?I thought that one of the reasons that DKIM signatures included the whole body was to prevent the signature from being reused. DF From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dotzero Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 1:51

Re: [dmarc-ietf] draft-crocker-dmarc-author-00 ?

2020-08-13 Thread Doug Foster
If I followed Neil’s discussion of MajorCRM: The current DMARC architecture supports authorizing a vendor to mail on behalf of their clients if the client includes them in their SPF policy or delegates a DKIM scope to them and they use it. I agree that SPF is too limiting (including hard

Re: [dmarc-ietf] "Email architecture is single author"

2020-08-13 Thread Doug Foster
In brief: My thinking is based on these foundations: - the incoming email gateway is an AAA server which conditionally allows anonymous logins - The NIST framework for digital identity. https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/ In that regard, digital identity is the focus, not human headcount. "customer

Re: [dmarc-ietf] The DMARC WG has placed draft-crocker-dmarc-sender in state "Call For Adoption By WG Issued"

2020-08-12 Thread Doug Foster
iable upon delivery, whether submitted by a DMARC-participating domain or not. There are several options for identifying the originator despite using the list domain in the From address. Some of these have been discussed in the Working Group. Summary The proposal is without merit. Doug Foster

Re: [dmarc-ietf] non-mailing list use case for differing header domains

2020-07-28 Thread Doug Foster
Hector, I do not understand this comment: "The DKIM Policy Model since ADSP lacked the ability to authorize 3rd party domains. DMARC did not address the problem and reason ADSP was abandoned. Hence the on-going dilemma." Domains that participate with a mailing list have the option of including

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Response to a claim in draft-crocker-dmarc-author-00 security considerations

2020-07-22 Thread Doug Foster
Since the conflict between DMARC and Mailing Lists is related to the changes that Mailing List apply to a received message, it may be useful to review the purposes that each of those changes serve, with a goal of eliminating unnecessary changes. Specifically, this list adds a footer to every me

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC threat analysis needed

2020-07-17 Thread Doug Foster
ewrite. And the whole thing may be too complicated to implement in a way that is upward compatible with the present architecture. But it would be a better model of reality. Doug Foster -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Hector Santos Sent: Fr

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC Use of the RFC5322.Sender Header Field

2020-07-15 Thread Doug Foster
Gmail specifies quarantine. Verizon.com, aol.com, and yahoo.com (common ownership) specify reject, reject, and quarantine respectively. Microsoft (live and Hotmail) specify none. Embarqmail specifies none. Which services did you check? -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC Use of the RFC5322.Sender Header Field

2020-07-14 Thread Doug Foster
This is a beautiful proposal if one assumes that domain owners will want to change.Since we do not have them well represented in this discussion, it is a conclusion that needs to be tested. I have pressed Dave on the issue of how good ML domains are to be distinguished from criminal domains, a

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC Use of the RFC5322.Sender Header Field

2020-07-14 Thread Doug Foster
Is not the whole point of your proposal to allow the MLM to authenticate the message based on the MLM domain signature alone, while presenting the document as originating from another domain? That is the very behavior that DMARC is trying to prevent. But since MLM editing is so important to you

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DMARC Use of the RFC5322.Sender Header Field

2020-07-13 Thread Doug Foster
Let's clarify the purpose of DMARC and the problem of MLM edits: Modifying in-transit messages is a threat vector for both sender and recipient. The ability to constructively modify a message is also the ability to maliciously modify a message. And the ability to maliciously modify a message is al

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-kucherawy-dkim-transform-01.txt

2020-07-06 Thread Doug Foster
If MLM changes are not reversible, we still have the problem of convincing the recipient gateway to trust the modified message. At first glance, this is an internal issue between the user who created the subscription and his email security administrator, and that communication is not obvious

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-kucherawy-dkim-transform-01.txt

2020-07-06 Thread Doug Foster
I like the idea of making signatures recoverable wherever possible. For mailing lists, I wonder if this approach is sufficient to solve the whole problem. If the MLM transformation is for security rather than informational purposes, I expect that the transformations will be (even should b

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Setting From: MLM, To: author, Bcc: subscribers

2020-06-30 Thread Doug Foster
You were partially right. Outlook allows me to pick columns, but I forgot that the feature was available. I don't see the feature on two web MUAs or two phone MUAs that I checked. Doug Foster -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Aless

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Setting From: MLM, To: author, Bcc: subscribers

2020-06-29 Thread Doug Foster
it probably does not sufficiently solve the user interface need. Which also suggests why I have not seen spammers try to manipulate that field. Doug Foster -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Alessandro Vesely Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 5:19 AM To

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Debugging and preventing DKIM failures- suggestion

2019-05-31 Thread Doug Foster
e your own organization's signatures onto the internet when you can or should know that they will fail validation. Doug Foster -Original Message- From: Dave Crocker [mailto:d...@dcrocker.net] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 12:41 AM To: fost...@bayviewphysicians.com Cc: IETF DMARC WG Subj

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DNS library queries for DKIM and DMARC records?

2019-05-15 Thread Doug Foster
our outbound traffic. I will be working with the vendor on that. Doug Foster -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Crocker Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 3:37 PM To: IETF DMARC WG Subject: [dmarc-ietf] DNS library queries for DKIM and

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Email security beyond DMARC?

2019-03-21 Thread Doug Foster
: Neutral, Softfail, Syntax errors, or Excessive nesting Do you handle SPF any differently between senders with DMARC enforcement and those without? Doug Foster From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Ken Simpson Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 1:01 PM To: John R Levine

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Email security beyond DMARC?

2019-03-19 Thread Doug Foster
Can one of you elaborate on the potential connection between PeP and DMARC, or more generally, the connection beteen PeP and spam filtering? -Original Message- From: dmarc [mailto:dmarc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of DAMY gustavo Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:03 PM To: dmarc@ietf.org Cc