Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:25:26 +0100, John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I have to say, without any sort of domain blanket/coverage option, it seems like something is really missing here. I'm seeing an implicit assumption that if someone has an opinion about mail from foo.com, they will

Re: [ietf-dkim] protecting domains that don't exist

2008-04-29 Thread Eliot Lear
Steve, The answer to that depends on what the operational goal of ADSP is. And that's never been clearly stated, really, certainly not to the level of there being any consensus on it. Really? How about Section 1 of RFC 5016? Eliot ___ NOTE

Re: [ietf-dkim] protecting domains that don't exist

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Atkins
On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: Steve, The answer to that depends on what the operational goal of ADSP is. And that's never been clearly stated, really, certainly not to the level of there being any consensus on it. Really? How about Section 1 of RFC 5016? It doesn't

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Al Iverson
On 29 Apr 2008 00:25:26 -, John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I have to say, without any sort of domain blanket/coverage option, it seems like something is really missing here. I'm seeing an implicit assumption that if someone has an opinion about mail from foo.com, they will have

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker
John Levine wrote: But I have to say, without any sort of domain blanket/coverage option, it seems like something is really missing here. I'm seeing an implicit assumption that if someone has an opinion about mail from foo.com, they will have a similar opinion of mail from subdomains

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread John Levine
I think I am not looking for an implicit assumption to have the same opinion about a.b.foo.com. I am thinking of how, as a sender, can I sign and allow (by actively providing the ability to denote good mail signed as) foo.com or a.foo.com but prevent the use of (by actively encouraging filter or

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread John Levine
But the problem is what goes in the From header of mails coming from random.example.com? Those will be set by whatever MUA is running on that secretary's machine which, if that machine was configured by the Secratary herself, will most likely be left by default at random.example.com.

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Al Iverson
On 29 Apr 2008 15:10:17 -, John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I am not looking for an implicit assumption to have the same opinion about a.b.foo.com. I am thinking of how, as a sender, can I sign and allow (by actively providing the ability to denote good mail signed as) foo.com

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread John Levine
What I was asking a few messages back is why anyone who's actually involved in running e-mail would care whether someone forged beans.rice.a.foo.com. Yahoo and Hotmail seem to be good candidates to want this. I'm open to hearing otherwise from them. I think a lack of response on this list

Re: [ietf-dkim] protecting domains that don't exist

2008-04-29 Thread Eliot Lear
Steve Atkins wrote: It doesn't contain any operational justification or goal for SSP. It describes what (one person) wants from SSP, it does not explain why, and it definitely doesn't provide the operational problem that SSP is intended to mitigate. Well, I really don't know where to

Re: [ietf-dkim] protecting domains that don't exist

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Atkins
On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: Steve Atkins wrote: It doesn't contain any operational justification or goal for SSP. It describes what (one person) wants from SSP, it does not explain why, and it definitely doesn't provide the operational problem that SSP is intended to

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker
Al Iverson wrote: My underlying point is that I need to understand more about how phishers, once locked out of use of bigbank.com due to DKIM+ADSP, can best be persuaded to avoid use of account.info.bigbank.com, or any other subdomain that they've thought of, that I haven't. Al, I think

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Al Iverson
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:30 AM, John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, keep in mind that if despite the fact that it doesn't matter, you really really REALLY want full ADSP coverage on every possible subdomain, you can always hire someone to write a specialized DNS server to provide it

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread John Levine
I think I'm not the only one making assumptions here. Of course not. I'm honestly trying to figure out whether any mail systems treat mail from sub.foo.com as being from foo.com when they make decisions about sorting, filtering, and so forth. That's why I'd really appreciate some actual

Re: [ietf-dkim] protecting domains that don't exist

2008-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker
Jim Fenton wrote: Dave Crocker wrote: I keep waiting for proponents of this 'feature' to solicit technical review from independent DNS and security experts, for assessing the likely benefit as balanced against the likely cost. I have been soliciting technical review from the DNS folks,

Re: [ietf-dkim] protecting domains that don't exist

2008-04-29 Thread Eliot Lear
Steve Atkins wrote: And what's the actual operational goal for this? If you can't give me the general goal, a concrete example or two would be a good start. The general goal is to discern that which isn't signed and should be signed and that which legitimately not be signed. I think one

[ietf-dkim] mipassoc.org is dkim signing

2008-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker
Folks, Thought it worth mentioning (touting): As of late Monday afternoon, mail coming from mipassoc.org, such as the ietf-dkim mailing list, is now carrying a DKIM signature. Eliot Lear has been helping my ISP (songbird) to get this running, using the milter module. Thanks, Eliot!

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread J D Falk
John Levine replied to Al Iverson: Yahoo and Hotmail seem to be good candidates to want this. I'm open to hearing otherwise from them. I think a lack of response on this list is not equivalent to a negative response, though. But you're assuming your conclusions again. I've never heard

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread J D Falk
John Levine wrote: I'm honestly trying to figure out whether any mail systems treat mail from sub.foo.com as being from foo.com when they make decisions about sorting, filtering, and so forth. That's why I'd really appreciate some actual examples if there are any. I'm not trying to be

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread SM
At 09:11 29-04-2008, John Levine wrote: I'm honestly trying to figure out whether any mail systems treat mail from sub.foo.com as being from foo.com when they make decisions about sorting, filtering, and so forth. That's why I'd really appreciate some actual examples if there are any. I'm not

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Douglas Otis
On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Al Iverson wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:30 AM, John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, keep in mind that if despite the fact that it doesn't matter, you really really REALLY want full ADSP coverage on every possible subdomain, you can always hire

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Wietse Venema
John Levine: I think I'm not the only one making assumptions here. Of course not. I'm honestly trying to figure out whether any mail systems treat mail from sub.foo.com as being from foo.com when they make decisions about sorting, filtering, and so forth. That's why I'd really appreciate

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Al Iverson
On 4/29/08, J D Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO the thing about phishers forging nonexistant domains is a non-issue. I can not imagine any circumstances where a nonexistant domain with no possibility of an ADSP statement will be given the same privleges as an existing domain that does

Re: [ietf-dkim] mipassoc.org is dkim signing

2008-04-29 Thread Al Iverson
Cool! Al On 4/29/08, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Thought it worth mentioning (touting): As of late Monday afternoon, mail coming from mipassoc.org, such as the ietf-dkim mailing list, is now carrying a DKIM signature. Eliot Lear has been helping my ISP (songbird)

Re: [ietf-dkim] mipassoc.org is dkim signing

2008-04-29 Thread Tony Hansen
Excellent job! Nice to be eating our own dog food. Tony Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Crocker wrote: Folks, Thought it worth mentioning (touting): As of late Monday afternoon, mail coming from mipassoc.org, such as the ietf-dkim mailing list, is now carrying a DKIM

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread J D Falk
Al asked: OK, let's assume ADSP has no tree walking or subzone inheritance feature. A sender is sending legitimate mails with customercare.bigbank.com with DKIM and an ADSP policy. If a phisher sends mail with a PRA of customer-care.bigbank.com, that would not be signed, and it would not

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Al Iverson
On 4/29/08, J D Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JD, thanks. This is very insightful. OK, let's assume ADSP has no tree walking or subzone inheritance feature. A sender is sending legitimate mails with customercare.bigbank.com with DKIM and an ADSP policy. If a phisher sends mail with a PRA

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Arvel Hathcock
I'm honestly trying to figure out whether any mail systems treat mail from sub.foo.com as being from foo.com when they make decisions about sorting, filtering, and so forth. SpamAssassin does this to a degree. It itself white-lists and in it's documentation encourages others to white-list

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread Arvel Hathcock
How will it benefit phishers to use arbitrary sub-domains? If the use of arbitrary sub-domains within an unsigned message can get-around an otherwise stricter receive-side filter then the benefit to phishers is obvious - their pay-load is all the more likely to be delivered. Compliance

[ietf-dkim] Section 3.1 - ASP Usage

2008-04-29 Thread SM
Hi, In the following case, a message has a valid DKIM signature: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=example.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... The author is [EMAIL PROTECTED] where the domain fails step 2 of Section 4.2.2. As the message has a valid signature from the Author

Re: [ietf-dkim] Are subdomains like parent domains?

2008-04-29 Thread J D Falk
Al wrote: So, a potential way to address this without any sort of tree walking functionality would be: - As a sender, publish ADSP records for all domains/zones/fqdns you know about Yep. - Recommend that receivers reject mail from non-existing FQDNs used in PRA or MFROM (or somesuch).

Re: [ietf-dkim] Section 3.1 - ASP Usage

2008-04-29 Thread Douglas Otis
On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:30 PM, SM wrote: Hi, In the following case, a message has a valid DKIM signature: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=example.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... The author is [EMAIL PROTECTED] where the domain fails step 2 of Section 4.2.2. As the