Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:09:14 +0100, Pete Resnick presn...@qualcomm.com wrote: I am perfectly happy with Murray's original (and now, revised) text. (Nits still being discussed are entirely up to the WG.) I am not happy with Charles's text. Particularly: On 7/7/11 5:08 AM, Charles Lindsey

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:06:29 +0100, Murray S. Kucherawy m...@cloudmark.com wrote: My favourite counterexample, which I've used many times already, is Mailman. It doesn't even check DKIM signatures, but you can still fake your way through its authorization process such that a different

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 07/Jul/11 16:13, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 7/7/2011 6:57 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: I'd s/to be liberal/to be exceedingly liberal/ (we don't want to revise Postel's statement, do we?) You're either liberal in your application of the RFCs, or you're not. I don't see how adding that word

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread McDowell, Brett
-Original Message- From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 6:22 PM Will your assume one more From than listed in h= lead to failed verifications on messages that actually follow the advice in the RFC to list duplicate headers in their h= values?

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Charles Lindsey Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 3:59 AM To: DKIM Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review My favourite counterexample, which

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/8/2011 6:48 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: If DKIM is not intended to give added credance to messages, then what on earth is its purpose at all. That question is answered numerous times in the draft, namely the Abstract and Sections 1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.5, 2.7, 3.9, 3.11, 6.3, and 8.15 (and

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Charles Lindsey Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 3:52 AM To: DKIM Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review 1. The fact that DKIM choose headers

Re: [ietf-dkim] Enough already, Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread John R. Levine
I'm not seeing much agreement on any changes to Murray's final draft, so may I suggest that it's good enough and we should ship it? The potential benefit of the proposed changes doesn't impress me as worth the amount of argument they're provoking. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/8/2011 6:54 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: That's not part of what DKIM tells an assessor, nor is the list of signed header fields, so I don't see why that would be a useful thing to highlight. For example, if a message contains two Subject: fields, the assessor doesn't know which

Re: [ietf-dkim] Enough already, Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread J.D. Falk
On Jul 8, 2011, at 7:05 AM, John R. Levine wrote: I'm not seeing much agreement on any changes to Murray's final draft, so may I suggest that it's good enough and we should ship it? The potential benefit of the proposed changes doesn't impress me as worth the amount of argument they're

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:05:49 +0100, McDowell, Brett bmcdow...@paypal-inc.com wrote: John, this particular part of the discussion is not about changing the RFC or DKIM implementations, only changing deployment configuration practices. Exactly so. All I am trying to do is to ensure that

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:54:43 +0100, Murray S. Kucherawy m...@cloudmark.com wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Charles Lindsey Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 3:52 AM 1. The fact that DKIM choose headers to sign from the bottom up (for good

[ietf-dkim] One From DKIM Rule

2011-07-08 Thread Hector Santos
Charles Lindsey wrote: I think is is clear that these attacks will work if deployers fail to watch out for them. The only question is how long it will take the Bad Guys to spot the opportunities (and for sure they WILL spot them - sooner probably than later). +1 To me, the protocol

Re: [ietf-dkim] Final update to 4871bis for working group review

2011-07-08 Thread Pete Resnick
I want to try to be precise, which I don't think Charles is being with his below two sets of facts. Let me try to clarify: On 7/8/11 5:52 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote: 1. The fact that DKIM choose headers to sign from the bottom up (for good reason) facilitates certain attacks (not against DKIM,