Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-09 Thread David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 17:21 -0400, Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss wrote: On your most recent message my Mac client says “Unable to verify message signature”. Clicking on “Show details” it says that the certificate is not valid, email address mismatch. Thanks for that information. That's a

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-09 Thread John Levine via dmarc-discuss
On your most recent message my Mac client says �Unable to verify message signature�. Clicking on �Show details� it says that the certificate is not valid, email address mismatch. Alpine said it was signed, with a note at the bottom about the signing address. Thunderbird said it had no

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-09 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy via dmarc-discuss
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:22 PM, David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss dmarc-discuss@dmarc.org wrote: DMARC really sounded good when it was first defined and spec’d. And it DOES prevent spoofing a Yahoo or AOL address, but does nothing to prevent spoofing a Yahoo or AOL user, (or Chase,

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-09 Thread Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss
On Jun 9, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy superu...@gmail.com wrote: For the banks, there's a much simpler solution anyway. Banks should be S/MIME-signing all their customer-facing outbound mail, and a customer should know with 100% certainty that if they get a mail which isn't S/MIME

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-09 Thread J. Gomez via dmarc-discuss
On Monday, June 09, 2014 10:35 PM [GMT+1=CET], David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 21:39 +0200, J. Gomez via dmarc-discuss wrote: On Sunday, June 08, 2014 7:22 AM [GMT+1=CET], David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss wrote: On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 16:42 -0400, Larry Finch via

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-09 Thread David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 13:49 -0400, Larry Finch wrote: On Jun 9, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy superu...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding is that (a) it's too hard for users to understand how to set it up and how to respond when problems occur, What is there to set up? If your MUA

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-09 Thread David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 21:39 +0200, J. Gomez via dmarc-discuss wrote: On Sunday, June 08, 2014 7:22 AM [GMT+1=CET], David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss wrote: On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 16:42 -0400, Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss wrote: DMARC really sounded good when it was first defined

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-08 Thread Al Iverson via dmarc-discuss
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:22 AM, David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss dmarc-discuss@dmarc.org wrote: Any bank *not* signing its direct-to-customer email should be prosecuted as an accessory to fraud which it is enabling by actively training its customers to succumb to phishing :) Since none of

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-08 Thread Al Iverson via dmarc-discuss
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 6/8/2014 1:26 AM, Al Iverson via dmarc-discuss wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Dave Crocker via dmarc-discuss Keeping in mind that the mailing list scenario has always been legitimate use, SMTP relay was a

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-08 Thread David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss
On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 10:52 -0500, Al Iverson via dmarc-discuss wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:22 AM, David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss dmarc-discuss@dmarc.org wrote: Any bank *not* signing its direct-to-customer email should be prosecuted as an accessory to fraud which it is enabling by

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-08 Thread Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss
David, On your most recent message my Mac client says “Unable to verify message signature”. Clicking on “Show details” it says that the certificate is not valid, email address mismatch. Were you out to prove something? best regards, Larry On Jun 8, 2014, at 1:36 PM, David Woodhouse via

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-08 Thread Steve Atkins via dmarc-discuss
On Jun 8, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss dmarc-discuss@dmarc.org wrote: David, On your most recent message my Mac client says “Unable to verify message signature”. Clicking on “Show details” it says that the certificate is not valid, email address mismatch. Were you

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss
On Jun 7, 2014, at 3:50 AM, J. Gomez via dmarc-discuss dmarc-discuss@dmarc.org wrote: The argument is that DMARC is a paradigm shift in email usage akin to the paradigm shift of no-open-relays. DMARC makes email so much more secure, as no-open-relays did. Except, as I and others

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Dave Crocker via dmarc-discuss
On 6/7/2014 3:24 PM, Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss wrote: Except, as I and others have discovered in the past few days, DMARC does NOT make email so much more secure,” as phishers and spammers have already found workarounds to continue their assault. So all DMARC has accomplished is to

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss
On Jun 7, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 6/7/2014 3:24 PM, Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss wrote: Except, as I and others have discovered in the past few days, DMARC does NOT make email so much more secure,” as phishers and spammers have already found workarounds

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Scott Kitterman via dmarc-discuss
On Saturday, June 07, 2014 16:33:14 Dave Crocker via dmarc-discuss wrote: ... We need to find a way to get objective and comparable information about this. ... If only DMARC had a mechanism for providing feedback so that people could measure this and provide data. ;-) Scott K

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Dave Crocker via dmarc-discuss
On 6/7/2014 4:56 PM, Scott Kitterman via dmarc-discuss wrote: If only DMARC had a mechanism for providing feedback so that people could measure this and provide data. ;-) I'm pretty sure it isn't my jet lag that's causing me to miss the rest of the details. For the question just posed --

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Scott Kitterman via dmarc-discuss
On Saturday, June 07, 2014 17:00:25 Dave Crocker wrote: On 6/7/2014 4:56 PM, Scott Kitterman via dmarc-discuss wrote: If only DMARC had a mechanism for providing feedback so that people could measure this and provide data. ;-) I'm pretty sure it isn't my jet lag that's causing me to miss

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Shal Farley via dmarc-discuss
Dave, It would be worth documenting both the nature of how they are harder to use and the extent of the effect. There is a widely held view that the only effect is a bit of visual ugliness, rather than of any serious user detriment. The nature of the detriments experienced by Yahoo Groups

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Dave Crocker via dmarc-discuss
On 6/7/2014 7:31 PM, Franck Martin wrote: But the claim is that these workarounds will mainly happen after you do DMARC p=reject. This data is coming in a not too distant future now. Keeping in mind that the mailing list scenario has always been legitimate use, the concern is that we may be

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Franck Martin via dmarc-discuss
On Jun 7, 2014, at 7:44 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 6/7/2014 7:31 PM, Franck Martin wrote: But the claim is that these workarounds will mainly happen after you do DMARC p=reject. This data is coming in a not too distant future now. Keeping in mind that the mailing list

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Shal Farley via dmarc-discuss
Larry, Except, as I and others have discovered in the past few days, DMARC does NOT make email so much more secure,” as phishers and spammers have already found workarounds to continue their assault. It can't by itself, no. It needs to be used together with some means to knock out the

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss
On Jun 7, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Shal Farley s...@roadrunner.com wrote: Larry, Except, as I and others have discovered in the past few days, DMARC does NOT make email so much more secure,” as phishers and spammers have already found workarounds to continue their assault. It can't by

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Shal Farley via dmarc-discuss
Dave, That does get at attempts via the protected path, namely rfc5322.from field domain. However it doesn't permit measuring other aveneues of attack spoofing the dmarc-using organization. Hm... I guess there could be privacy problems with allowing a DMARC author domain to request

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Franck Martin via dmarc-discuss
On Jun 7, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss dmarc-discuss@dmarc.org wrote: On Jun 7, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Shal Farley s...@roadrunner.com wrote: Larry, Except, as I and others have discovered in the past few days, DMARC does NOT make email so much more secure,” as

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Al Iverson via dmarc-discuss
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Dave Crocker via dmarc-discuss dmarc-discuss@dmarc.org wrote: On 6/7/2014 7:31 PM, Franck Martin wrote: But the claim is that these workarounds will mainly happen after you do DMARC p=reject. This data is coming in a not too distant future now. Keeping in

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread Dave Crocker via dmarc-discuss
On 6/8/2014 1:26 AM, Al Iverson via dmarc-discuss wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Dave Crocker via dmarc-discuss Keeping in mind that the mailing list scenario has always been legitimate use, SMTP relay was a legitimate use case (or at least was very loudly claimed to be by those

Re: [dmarc-discuss] MLM and Header-From rewritting - the SMTPopen-relay analogy

2014-06-07 Thread David Woodhouse via dmarc-discuss
On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 16:42 -0400, Larry Finch via dmarc-discuss wrote: DMARC really sounded good when it was first defined and spec’d. And it DOES prevent spoofing a Yahoo or AOL address, but does nothing to prevent spoofing a Yahoo or AOL user, (or Chase, Wells-Fargo, Bank of America, etc)