[ietf-dkim] Re: from'less 2822 messages

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Ellermann
Michael Thomas wrote: Such as a bounce? I thought that a bounce was a MAIL FROM: ? Yes, of course this could be also another auto-reply. I don't recall seeing a null 822 From: That would be a clear syntax error, and I think one technical reason why DKIM uses From is that it's guaranteed

[ietf-dkim] SSP vs. reputation (was: ISSUE 1521 -- Limit the application of SSP to unsigned messages)

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Ellermann
Hector Santos wrote: The deployment guide specifically states: Unless a scheme can correlate the DKIM signature with accreditation or reputation data, the presence of a DKIM signature SHOULD be ignored. And that implies even a VALID signature. So the DEPLOYMENT draft changes

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: from'less 2822 messages

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Thomas
Frank Ellermann wrote: Michael Thomas wrote: Such as a bounce? I thought that a bounce was a MAIL FROM: ? Yes, of course this could be also another auto-reply. I don't recall seeing a null 822 From: That would be a clear syntax error, and I think one technical reason why DKIM uses

[ietf-dkim] A proposal for restructuring SSP

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Fenton
Eric Allman and I have been discussing a larger change to the SSP specification that we believe addresses a number of the issues that have been raised. The biggest change is the separation of the SSP function into a checker, that retrieves the SSP record/records relevant to a given message,

reputation is orthogonal (RE: [ietf-dkim] Re: ISSUE 1521 -- Limit the application of SSP tounsigned messages)

2008-01-25 Thread J D Falk
Hector lamented: Its unfortunate that it has nothing to do with technical reasons but the powers that are pushing reputations instead. The fact is, Dave's never cared for SSP and its spelled out in his deployment guide, and the other guy pushing his reputation service has no room for SSP

[ietf-dkim] Price of Rice in China

2008-01-25 Thread Hector Santos
John Levine wrote: Well, gee. What if there are two From: lines? Three From: lines? A From: line with two addresses but no Sender:? A From: line with two addresses, one of which has no @ sign? And if you quickly skip down to South Beach, you will find Fidel Castro sun-bathing smoking a

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: from'less 2822 messages

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Thomas
John Levine wrote: Frank, you're (inadvertently?) bringing up exactly the kind of corner cases that I was trying to raise so that SSP implementations have the same behavior in their presence. It may be that all we practically need to do is refer to 2822 and say that if the From: field is

Re: [ietf-dkim] A proposal for restructuring SSP

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 4:03 PM -0800 1/25/08, Jim Fenton wrote: Eric Allman and I have been discussing a larger change to the SSP specification that we believe addresses a number of the issues that have been raised. The biggest change is the separation of the SSP function into a checker, that retrieves the SSP

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: from'less 2822 messages

2008-01-25 Thread Damon
When I pointed out that the first from rule enabled a trivial end run around SSP, by using a real first address and a forged second address that is likely to be visible in MUAs, I naively assumed that it would be obvious to everyone that any rule other than checking all the addresses would

RE: [ietf-dkim] Re: SSP vs. reputation

2008-01-25 Thread MH Michael Hammer (5304)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hector Santos Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 2:28 PM To: Frank Ellermann Cc: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: SSP vs. reputation Frank, snip It will not make sense for me to add

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: ISSUE 1521 -- Limit the application of SSP tounsigned messages

2008-01-25 Thread Damon
On Jan 25, 2008 12:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, Are you not making the assumption that implementaors may check SSP before checking dkim? A quick SSP lookup first returning a strict against a third party dkim signed mail may be processed differently than a SSP relaxed Thanks,

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: ISSUE 1521 -- Limit the application of SSP to unsigned messages

2008-01-25 Thread Hector Santos
Mark Delany wrote: On Jan 24, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Hector Santos wrote: But to disagree with you, I voted +1 precisely for technical reasons. I want a simple solution that non-WG-specialists can grok. I don't think we have that today. Well Mark, I'm surprise if you really mean that. If you

RE: [ietf-dkim] Re: ISSUE 1521 -- Limit the application of SSP tounsigned messages

2008-01-25 Thread Bill.Oxley
Charles, Are you not making the assumption that implementaors may check SSP before checking dkim? A quick SSP lookup first returning a strict against a third party dkim signed mail may be processed differently than a SSP relaxed Thanks, Bill Oxley Messaging Engineer Cox Communications

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: from'less 2822 messages

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Thomas
Frank Ellermann wrote: Michael Thomas wrote: I'm aware that this is not legal, but these sort of things happen in the real world, and are the kind of things that cause interoperability and/or deployment issues. Since SSP is a security protocol, we can pretty much be guaranteed that somebody

Re: [ietf-dkim] Seriously.

2008-01-25 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:54:00 -, Jim Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My concern has to do with whether the SSP of the other From (author) domains has to be considered as well. Just as the point has been made that it's not proper to handle this case by arbitrarily picking the first From

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: ISSUE 1521 -- Limit the application of SSP to unsigned messages

2008-01-25 Thread Mark Delany
On Jan 24, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Hector Santos wrote: Mark Delany wrote: On Jan 24, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Summary of proposal: All text that causes SSP to be applied to an already-signed message needs to be removed. I would take this further: remove all text that says when

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: SSP vs. reputation

2008-01-25 Thread Hector Santos
Frank, The point is that in a new level of DKIM/SSP operations, these things would be a natural part of the checking Frank. It may not jive with some aspects of the current relaxed nature of internet email, but that is why we have such a high rate of fraud too, the unverified relaxed nature

[ietf-dkim] Re: from'less 2822 messages

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Ellermann
Michael Thomas wrote: I'm aware that this is not legal, but these sort of things happen in the real world, and are the kind of things that cause interoperability and/or deployment issues. Since SSP is a security protocol, we can pretty much be guaranteed that somebody will eventually start

Re: reasons to ignore valid SSP (was RE: [ietf-dkim] Srsly.)

2008-01-25 Thread Eliot Lear
Steve Atkins wrote: ISPs aren't going to reclassify a message from should be rejected to deliver to inbox on a whim. Sure they are. ISPs are responsible to their customers, not the senders. They should, and usually will, do what will make their customers happy. You replied out of context.

RE: [ietf-dkim] SSP vs. reputation

2008-01-25 Thread MH Michael Hammer (5304)
Hector Santos wrote: Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:55 PM To: Frank Ellermann Cc: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] SSP vs. reputation Oh I see, you are redirecting the original mail to someone else as if it was new. You are not using the FORWARDING features of the MUA.