Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Jim Fenton
Dave Crocker wrote: > > > Jim Fenton wrote: >> Dave Crocker wrote: >>> At best, the benefit of having s= defined now depends on whether >>> people are setting s=email now. Are they? Should they? How will >>> they know? >> >> Are they: I haven't seen a key with s=email yet, although I'll have

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Crocker
Ahh. Indeed. Yes, having those in the DNS record always struck me as oddly unnecessary. d/ Jim Fenton wrote: > Dave Crocker wrote: >> >> Jim Fenton wrote: >>> Dave Crocker wrote: Jim Fenton wrote: > Dave Crocker wrote: The current utility is that, while extensions > can be added

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Jim Fenton
Dave Crocker wrote: > > > Jim Fenton wrote: >> Dave Crocker wrote: >>> Jim Fenton wrote: Dave Crocker wrote: The current utility is that, while extensions can be added any time, constraints need to be added up front. So if another service besides email wanted to use DKIM and its k

Re: [ietf-dkim] Overview and Signing vs. Practices (was Re: New Issue: Discussion of assessments in Selector Construct section)

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Crocker
Jim Fenton wrote: > Dave Crocker wrote: I don't understand. What is there in the DKIM signing protocol that requires the author adress to "follow suit"? >>> Not in the signing protocol, but in ADSP. If an email with a From >>> address of, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is signed with

Re: [ietf-dkim] Overview and Signing vs. Practices (was Re: New Issue: Discussion of assessments in Selector Construct section)

2008-03-25 Thread Jim Fenton
Dave Crocker wrote: > > > Jim Fenton wrote: The last paragraph also suggests the use of different sub-domains for d=, but does not point out that the author address must also follow suit, otherwise the message may not be seen to be in compliance with Signing Policy. >>> I don

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Crocker
Jim Fenton wrote: > Dave Crocker wrote: >> Jim Fenton wrote: >>> Dave Crocker wrote: The current utility is that, while extensions can be >>> added any time, constraints need to be added up front. So if another >>> service besides email wanted to use DKIM and its key infrastructure, it >>> wo

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Crocker
Jim Fenton wrote: > Dave Crocker wrote: >> At best, the benefit of having s= defined now depends on whether >> people are setting s=email now. Are they? Should they? How will >> they know? > > Are they: I haven't seen a key with s=email yet, although I'll have to > admit that I don't look

[ietf-dkim] Overview and Signing vs. Practices (was Re: New Issue: Discussion of assessments in Selector Construct section)

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Crocker
Jim Fenton wrote: >>> The last paragraph also suggests the use of different sub-domains for >>> d=, but does not point out that the author address must also follow >>> suit, otherwise the message may not be seen to be in compliance with >>> Signing Policy. >> I don't understand. What is there

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread J D Falk
Jim noticed: > Are you perhaps confusing s= in the signature (selector name) with s= > in the key record (service type)? It's the latter that we're discussing. Yep, I must be confusing those. Is it too late to change the letter? ___ NOTE WELL: This

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Jim Fenton
J D Falk wrote: > Jim Fenton wrote: > > >>> At best, the benefit of having s= defined now depends on whether >>> people are setting s=email now. Are they? Should they? How will >>> they know? >>> >> Are they: I haven't seen a key with s=email yet, although I'll have >> to admit that I

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Development & Deployment guide improperly uses normative language

2008-03-25 Thread SM
At 07:08 21-03-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In particular, great care MUST be taken when >releasing memory pages to the operating system to ensure that private >key information is not disclosed to other processes. >Should be changed to >If one does not clearly understand how computers

Re: [ietf-dkim] Practices protocol naming poll (Closing issue 1550)

2008-03-25 Thread J D Falk
> [X] ADSP - Administrative Domain Signing Practices (**) > [X] ADSP - Author Domain Signing Practices > [X] ASP - Author Signing Practices\ But mostly, I want to see this issue closed so I can start telling people what A(D)SP is /for/ rather than what it's likely to be called.

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Development & Deployment guideimproperly uses normative language

2008-03-25 Thread J D Falk
Bill Oxley wrote: > In particular, great care MUST be taken when >releasing memory pages to the operating system to ensure that private >key information is not disclosed to other processes. > Should be changed to > If one does not clearly understand how computers work you MUST NOT try > to

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread J D Falk
Jim Fenton wrote: >> At best, the benefit of having s= defined now depends on whether >> people are setting s=email now. Are they? Should they? How will >> they know? > > Are they: I haven't seen a key with s=email yet, although I'll have > to admit that I don't look at a lot of selectors. I

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Discussion of assessments in Selector Construct section

2008-03-25 Thread Douglas Otis
On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Jim Fenton wrote: > Section 4.3, "The Selector Construct", talks quite a bit about > identities for doing assessments. Other than the point that it > makes in the section beginning NOTE:, none of this has anything to > do with selectors. Furthermore, I consid

[ietf-dkim] dkim-overview-09/ Verification

2008-03-25 Thread Douglas Otis
4.4. Verification |After a message has been signed, any agent in the message transit |path can verify the signature to determine that the signing identity |took responsibility for the message. This is a grossly inaccurate statement! Verification of a signature _only_ indicates the domain IS re

[ietf-dkim] dkim-overview-09 /authentication scope per derivatives

2008-03-25 Thread Douglas Otis
3.1.4. Distinguish the core authentication mechanism from its derivative uses |An authenticated identity can be subject to a variety of processing |policies, either ad hoc or standardized. The only semantics inherent |to a DKIM signature is that the signer is asserting (some) |responsibili

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Delany
> It also limits the ability of an external party that has been > delegated a key for a particular service to (mis)use that key for > other, unauthorized services. > That's probably the best reason for it. In any event, this is surely moot at this stage. Most protocols end up with unused or

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Delany
On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Jim Fenton wrote: > Dave Crocker wrote: >> >> >> Jim Fenton wrote: >>> Dave Crocker wrote: >>> You further seem to indicate that s= is not currently useful but would be if it listed other services. (I well might be misunderstanding this part

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Jim Fenton
Mark Delany wrote: > On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:30 PM, Jim Fenton wrote: > >> The current utility is that, while extensions can be added any time, >> constraints need to be added up front. > > > Okay, I'll bite. Why is this a good idea? By way of contrast, when an > A RR is added to a DNS zone saying

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Overview service-type and delegation

2008-03-25 Thread Jim Fenton
Dave Crocker wrote: > > > Jim Fenton wrote: >> Dave Crocker wrote: >> >>> You further seem to indicate that s= is not currently useful but >>> would be >>> if it listed other services. (I well might be misunderstanding this >>> part >>> of your text.) In any event, either the capability has cur

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: Discussion of assessments in Selector Construct section

2008-03-25 Thread Jim Fenton
Dave Crocker wrote: > > > Jim Fenton wrote: >> Section 4.3, "The Selector Construct", talks quite a bit about >> identities for doing assessments. > > Let's take care of the "quite a bit", just to make sure we are in sync > about the relevant text. > > The first paragraph merely says that d=/i=