Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-02 review

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/14/2010 08:13 AM, John R. Levine wrote: I agree with Mike's assessment. I remain unable to reconcile this is very important and throw it away applied to the same message. The problem here is that you shouldn't be mixing up human values of importance or not, with the mechanical policy

Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-02 review

2010-09-13 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/13/2010 08:59 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: --On 13 September 2010 11:38:39 -0400 John R. Levinejo...@iecc.com wrote: --On 13 September 2010 10:19:05 -0400 MH Michael Hammer (5304) mham...@ag.com wrote: I agree that if a signing domain publishes discardable then the MLM should discard

Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-02 review

2010-09-13 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/13/2010 11:58 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Michael Thomas Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 10:22 AM To: Ian Eiloart Cc: DKIM Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim

Re: [ietf-dkim] Key rotation

2010-09-09 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/09/2010 11:12 AM, McDowell, Brett wrote: On Sep 4, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: The whole point of rotating keys is so that loss of an old private key isn't a risk. Given that, I think that even if you're fairly sure that a key pair hasn't been compromised then you should

Re: [ietf-dkim] Key rotation

2010-09-09 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/09/2010 09:57 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: Mark Delany wrote: I believe the general thrust is that DKIM keys are ephemeral so no one should rely on there long-term presence. [...] With each key there is an associated selector:domain pair, so with a key rotation comes the change of a

Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-02 review

2010-09-01 Thread Michael Thomas
I'll cheerfully give up references to S/MIME, if other people will give up on telling software developers how to rewrite MLMs to do things they've never done before. Frankly, the best possible advice we can give is to tell people to sign all their mail, set ADSP to discardable and let mailing

Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-02 review

2010-09-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/01/2010 02:49 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: If your goal is to have MLM developers rewrite their perfectly working code to work around the fundamental flaws in ADSP - a protocol nobody other than bulk mailers is interested in, and which in any even marginally sane deployment would never

Re: [ietf-dkim] Proposed changes to MLM draft

2010-08-30 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/30/2010 11:03 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: I’d like some help tackling the next version of the MLM draft. People seem to have varying ideas about what should be removed and perhaps appear in other documents now. I need some consensus on a direction in which to proceed. So can I

Re: [ietf-dkim] Mailing lists and s/mime dkim signatures - mua considerations

2010-08-22 Thread Michael Thomas
John R. Levine wrote: I'm sorry, this gets the history wrong. We had a lot of arguments about this when we were doing 4871, and I believe you will find that we added l= over substantial opposition under the theory that it would compensate for a significant fraction of MLM modifications. I

Re: [ietf-dkim] Mailing lists and signatures (fwd)

2010-08-21 Thread Michael Thomas
John R. Levine wrote: Yes, I am a nitwit, but you knew that. This time I'll tell Alpine to sign it with S/MIME. John, For your reposted message with Alphine, I am still not seeing any S/MIME based certified mail indicator in Thunderbird 2.0. T'bird for some reason doesn't see

Re: [ietf-dkim] marketing dkim

2010-08-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/19/2010 10:23 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: On 19/08/10 18:06, Michael Thomas wrote: On 08/19/2010 09:20 AM, John Levine wrote: Be sure to tell them that ADSP is not useful, according to one of the authors of the ADSP RFC. Chairs -- Can I ask for a revision of ADSP where John

Re: [ietf-dkim] marketing dkim

2010-08-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/19/2010 10:29 AM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Aug 18, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Daniel Black wrote: * BUT otherwise its useless in its current state. Useless for which purpose? From the rest of the message it sounds like you're primarily thinking about discussion-type mailing lists, which -- while

Re: [ietf-dkim] draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-01 review request

2010-08-17 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/17/2010 04:08 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: --On 10 August 2010 06:59:42 +0100 Graham Murraygra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Dave CROCKERd...@dcrocker.net writes: DKIM and ADSP evaluation are not performed during an SMTP session, unless the session is delayed after the crlf.crlf, and that's

Re: [ietf-dkim] Straw poll results

2010-08-09 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/09/2010 11:41 AM, John R. Levine wrote: My point is simple: everyone handles mail from lists using the identity of the list, not the identity of the contributor. Another vivid illustration of the fallacy of the excluded middle. Mike ___ NOTE

Re: [ietf-dkim] Straw poll results

2010-08-09 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/09/2010 10:45 AM, John Levine wrote: In article548b10a3a5fcf3025a4b5...@lewes.staff.uscs.susx.ac.uk you write: However, if there's a need to trust the original sender, and you don't quite trust the list to get that right for you, ... It appears that we can discard this concern as

Re: [ietf-dkim] Straw poll results

2010-08-09 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/09/2010 01:48 PM, John R. Levine wrote: I'm not trying to pick on you, but I would like to understand if there is any non-hypothetical spam or delivery management of list mail[...] Again, the excluded middle that spam/etc pays any attention at all whether something is list mail, whatever

Re: [ietf-dkim] Clarifying DKIM (etc.) expectations for mailing lists in the face of digests

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/04/2010 10:07 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: What is the security model that makes this expectation of preservation important and reasonable, given that it is so easily and whimsically violated by a common recipient-selectable setting? The original 822 From: address is not preserved in a

Re: [ietf-dkim] MLMs and the use of multipart/alternative to preserve original DKIM signature and at the same time add a new DKIM signature

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/03/2010 03:03 AM, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: With this situation in mind, I wrote my proposal, to provide the verifier on the receiving side with a means to verify the original DKIM signature. Rolf, When we wrote our dkim implementation, we did a bunch of work within the existing DKIM

Re: [ietf-dkim] MLMs and the use of multipart/alternative to preserve original DKIM signature and at the same time add a new DKIM signature

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/03/2010 09:15 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Michael Thomas Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:59 AM To: Rolf E. Sonneveld Cc: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf

Re: [ietf-dkim] MLMs and the use of multipart/alternative to preserve original DKIM signature and at the same time add a new DKIM signature

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/03/2010 09:40 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: Michael Thomas [mailto:m...@mtcc.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:21 AM To: Murray S. Kucherawy Cc: Rolf E. Sonneveld; ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] MLMs and the use of multipart

Re: [ietf-dkim] MLMs and the use of multipart/alternative to preserve original DKIM signature and at the same time add a new DKIM signature

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/03/2010 10:34 AM, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: quote Changes that merely add new header fields, such as those specified by [LIST-ID], [LIST-URLS] and [MAIL] are generally the most friendly to a DKIM-participating email infrastructure in that their addition by an MLM will not affect any

Re: [ietf-dkim] Feedback on draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists for discussion

2010-08-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/01/2010 03:22 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: Some offlist feedback I wanted to bounce to the list to gauge consensus: a) Section 5.1 currently advocates a warning to new subscribers to an MLM with a highly restrictive ADSP policy. Should this be stronger, such as “a warning is advised,

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00 (fwd)

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 07/29/2010 11:53 AM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Jul 29, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Ian Eiloart wrote: --On 26 July 2010 18:24:34 +0200 J.D. Falkjdfalk-li...@cybernothing.org wrote: I think it's because, when you implement most protocols, if your end is broken then you can't even talk to the other end.

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00 (fwd)

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Thomas
As we all know, admins can and do screw up anything, but with most mistakes, the damage directly affects them. If you screw up your MX, your own incoming mail won't work. If you screw up your ADSP, your mail will work fine, while other people's mail systems will mysteriously lose mail.

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00 (fwd)

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 07/26/2010 09:24 AM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: I've engaged some of you off-list trying to understand why ADSP is fundamentally different than the private agreements known to exist between PayPal and some large email service providers. I

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00(fwd)

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/25/2010 08:44 AM, John R. Levine wrote: Help me out here John, where exactly is that silently drop section? I see the discarding part but the drop silently part seems to be a bit silent. Sheesh, Mike. Discard is an ordinary English word which I used in its ordinary English sense. I

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00(fwd)

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/24/2010 07:49 AM, John Levine wrote: Are you making the assumption that all third party lists would be equally credible? That's no more likely than all DNSBLs being equally credible. In both cases, the good ones will make sure their data is correct, maybe by backchannels to the

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00(fwd)

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/24/2010 08:45 AM, Martijn Grooten wrote: So why does a domain that performs that painful audit and remediation need to then tell John's drop list that it's OK to drop unsigned mail? It doesn't. It can just publish an ADSP record and be done with it. No need to count on some unreliable,

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00(fwd)

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/24/2010 09:36 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Steve Atkins Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:43 AM To: DKIM List Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00(fwd)

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/24/2010 09:28 AM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: Any service that doesn't have an *explicit* guarantee from the mail domain itself that it signs all mail is worse than incompetent, it's harmful. A third party can *never* prove the negative

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00(fwd)

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/24/2010 10:10 AM, Mark Delany wrote: Conceivably at risk domains would first submit themselves to such a service and ask it to discover and publish (and/or feedback) counter examples. Since all you need is one counter example, getting 20 or 30 large, trusted mail providers to

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00 (fwd)

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/22/2010 09:46 AM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:00 PM, John R. Levine wrote: As threatened, here's an I-D that says how one would publish a list of domains for which it makes sense to discard unsigned mail. Looks like a good start, and almost shockingly simple. Any MTA/MFA

Re: [ietf-dkim] New Version Notification for draft-levine-dbr-00 (fwd)

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/22/2010 11:07 AM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 06/22/2010 09:46 AM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:00 PM, John R. Levine wrote: As threatened, here's an I-D that says how one would publish a list of domains for which it makes sense

Re: [ietf-dkim] ADSP experience (wasn't Re: Lists BCP draft available)

2010-06-15 Thread Michael Thomas
J.D. Falk wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:07 AM, John R. Levine wrote: The sooner we stop wasting time trying to fix ADSP and start getting shared drop lists, the sooner there's some hope of using DKIM to keep simple forgeries out of peoples' inboxes. I'm aware of a handful of beta-ish

Re: [ietf-dkim] Lists BCP draft available

2010-06-11 Thread Michael Thomas
That's an example of the reason that I don't find ADSP useful (as opposed to manually vetted discard lists.) There's no way to tell whether the party publishing discardable understands what they're saying. I'm sure that some people would like to put: theirdomain.com.3600

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/02/2010 11:41 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: Fourth, as I mentioned above, even if all you said was valid, registering thousands of domains in order to make ADSP sort-of work against phishing isn't something that scales, either in terms of domain name system nor the expense. If ADSP requires

Re: [ietf-dkim] the danger of ADSP, was list vs contributor

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/02/2010 02:11 PM, John R. Levine wrote: The basic problem with ADSP is that we shipped an untested prototype, and at this point the only way to test it is to try experiments and hope they don't do too much damage before we have a chance to tweak and mitigate the problems. I appreciate

Re: [ietf-dkim] the danger of ADSP, was list vs contributor

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/02/2010 03:47 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: On 6/2/10 2:43 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: Instead of kvetching about ADSP, you might tell the list owners that their list software heuristics are broken. Mailing lists are on higher ground, since they are not introducing the new mechanism. When we

Re: [ietf-dkim] the danger of ADSP, was list vs contributor

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/02/2010 04:25 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: On Jun 2, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 06/02/2010 03:47 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: On 6/2/10 2:43 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: Instead of kvetching about ADSP, you might tell the list owners that their list software heuristics are broken

Re: [ietf-dkim] the danger of ADSP, was list vs contributor

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Instead of kvetching about ADSP, you might tell the list owners that their list software heuristics are broken. Oh, OK, that shouldn't be hard. Actually, I doubt it will be hard. The casualties of ADSP causing third party kicks causes the blame to laid where it deserves: the list software. I

[ietf-dkim] list spam

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/01/2010 12:59 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: I've seen spam posted to mailing lists. Recently, I've seen lists targetted in more intelligent ways by spammers. For example, by using sender addresses in the domain of the list (quite a useful way of attacking academic lists, which tend to

Re: [ietf-dkim] Lists BCP draft review

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/01/2010 11:43 AM, John Levine wrote: I have to say that I share much of Dave's bafflement. And as a minor list developer, I don't recognize any MLM I know in many of the assertions below. I was more highlighting there was an active choice in a MLM development to remove DKIM headers

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Thomas
Since these are all rhetorical questions, let's cut to the chase: do you believe John, who never believed in ADSP and has repeatedly said that he hope it fails, and who has a microscopic amount of deployment experience if any at all. Or do we believe Brett/paypal that ADSP is providing benefit

[ietf-dkim] bad mail blowback

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/27/2010 03:21 AM, Roland Turner wrote: On 26/05/2010 22:48, Steve Atkins wrote: However, domain B is not an innocent bystander, as they intentionally configured their mail system to reject mail it shouldn't, and the recipients at domain B support that decision, on some level. Domains

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/27/2010 07:05 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: do you believe John, who never believed in ADSP and has repeatedly said that he hope it fails, and who has a microscopic amount of deployment experience if any at all. Or do we believe Brett/paypal that ADSP is providing benefit *today* in the form of

Re: [ietf-dkim] bad mail blowback

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/27/2010 07:35 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Michael Thomas Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 6:22 AM To: Roland Turner Cc: DKIM List Subject: [ietf-dkim] bad mail blowback

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/27/2010 09:14 PM, John Levine wrote: So I understand your line of reasoning. But today, I believe ADSP can provide a benefit. Brett has data that supports that. Once again, we have a pernicious confusion between manually maintained drop lists and ADSP. Brett has data that supports the

Re: [ietf-dkim] more on discardable, was Lists BCP draft

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/26/2010 07:48 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: Perhaps I missed something, but if domain B is rejecting email from the list Authored by A, then won't that cause a list member at domain B to be removed from the list as well? I think that is what John meant by innocent bystander. Most MLM remove

Re: [ietf-dkim] more on discardable, was Lists BCP draft

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/26/2010 08:17 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 05/26/2010 07:48 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: Perhaps I missed something, but if domain B is rejecting email from the list Authored by A, then won't that cause a list member at domain B

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/26/2010 08:55 AM, John Levine wrote: Problem = phishing Utility = just one sender + two mailbox providers have blocked over 100 million phishing attacks, many of those blocks also resulted in site take-downs. The value of what we already have from your efforts in IETF is HUGE for

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/26/2010 09:58 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Brett McDowell wrote: I respectfully disagree with you. We *were* a special case. Soon we will not be a special case because ADSP will enable all mailbox providers, if they choose, to do for others what they have

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/26/2010 10:42 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 05/26/2010 09:58 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: On May 26, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Brett McDowell wrote: I respectfully disagree with you. We *were

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-05-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/26/2010 11:30 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: Michael claims off-list that he has no idea what I'm speaking of. I said huh? too. Perhaps I'm missing something. I'm working with the mental model that the underlying problem ADSP advocates would like to address is phishing or brand protection,

Re: [ietf-dkim] Lists BCP draft available

2010-05-24 Thread Michael Thomas
Roland Turner wrote: Surely the stance of a dkim=discardable sender is that it is absolutely OK to discard affected messages if there is any reason at all for doubt and that, therefore, non-participant MLMs aren't, actually, breaking anything. There's some risk that what a list thinks

Re: [ietf-dkim] more on discardable, was Lists BCP draft

2010-05-24 Thread Michael Thomas
This is doubly true since the ADSP RFC rather specifically says that you shouldn't mark a domain discardable if its users send mail to lists. Only if you care about the mail being delivered. I think that if we do this BCP, we should give some advice about what, say, a company like, oh say,

Re: [ietf-dkim] Lists BCP draft available

2010-05-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/19/2010 02:21 PM, J.D. Falk wrote: On May 19, 2010, at 7:53 AM, MH Michael Hammer (5304) wrote: +1. The current discussion was supposed to be about BCP. I agree with Stephen with the caveat that if the group thinks re-opening ADSP discussion is important then include it in the

Re: [ietf-dkim] Lists BCP draft available

2010-05-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/19/2010 02:35 PM, J.D. Falk wrote: On May 19, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 05/19/2010 02:21 PM, J.D. Falk wrote: On May 19, 2010, at 7:53 AM, MH Michael Hammer (5304) wrote: +1. The current discussion was supposed to be about BCP. I agree with Stephen with the caveat

Re: [ietf-dkim] Clarification needed for Computing the Message Hashes

2010-05-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/06/2010 09:32 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Michael Ströder Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:51 AM To: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: [ietf-dkim] Clarification needed

Re: [ietf-dkim] besides mailing lists...

2010-05-03 Thread Michael Thomas
While I personally find F2F usage sort of creepy, from the receiver's standpoint it looks for all intents and purposes like a mailing list, which for all intents and purposes looks like an unsigned piece of mail purporting to be from my domain. Intent seems to have very little to do with

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/30/2010 07:05 AM, McDowell, Brett wrote: In that scenario, if the MLM re-signing solution has been deployed by Y, and DKIM+ADSP has been deployed by X Z, and Z has chosen to take action on X's ADSP policies... the only thing Z is trusting Y to do is validate incoming DKIM

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/30/2010 07:38 AM, McDowell, Brett wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 04/30/2010 07:05 AM, McDowell, Brett wrote: In that scenario, if the MLM re-signing solution has been deployed by Y, and DKIM+ADSP has been deployed by X Z, and Z has chosen to take

Re: [ietf-dkim] Wrong Discussion - was Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/30/2010 08:32 AM, Jeff Macdonald wrote: Perhaps poorly chosen words. But I think most understood the intent. I'm willing to go from a world where any system can use my From to one where only the systems I say can. And that means changes. Really? The sender has to opt in? That sounds like

[ietf-dkim] besides mailing lists...

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Thomas
Is there anything out there that's not in the mistake or bogus category that would foil paypal's discardable adsp setting? Preferably that has the characteristic that it's out of their control. Mike ___ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to

Re: [ietf-dkim] besides mailing lists...

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/30/2010 09:37 AM, Jeff Macdonald wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Michael Thomasm...@mtcc.com wrote: Is there anything out there that's not in the mistake or bogus category that would foil paypal's discardable adsp setting? Preferably that has the characteristic that it's out

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/29/2010 10:23 AM, Al Iverson wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:58 AM, McDowell, Brettbmcdow...@paypal.com wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:11 PM, John R. Levine wrote: Your proposal that MLM remove Signatures would cause restrictive policies to fail. Which is why I oppose this

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/29/2010 10:47 AM, Al Iverson wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Michael Thomasm...@mtcc.com wrote: On 04/29/2010 10:23 AM, Al Iverson wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:58 AM, McDowell, Brettbmcdow...@paypal.com wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:11 PM, John R. Levine wrote: Your

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/29/2010 10:42 AM, Powers, Jot wrote: On 4/29/10 10:34 AM, Michael Thomasm...@mtcc.com scribbled: On 04/29/2010 10:23 AM, Al Iverson wrote: As John Levine mentioned previously, your own posts to this list fail authentication and end up in many of our spam folders because of Paypal's SPF

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/29/2010 11:17 AM, Powers, Jot wrote: On 4/29/10 11:12 AM, Michael Thomasm...@mtcc.com scribbled: With respect to DKIM, anybody who filters based on broken signatures without any (or little) other input pretty much deserves the false positive rate they're complaining about. Ok. I

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/29/2010 11:39 AM, Powers, Jot wrote: What I'd advise is something like put all of your transactional mail in a subdomain and set it to discardable, but don't do that to all your corpro users. There are other ways to go about this, but I'd say that you're playing with fire lumping all

Re: [ietf-dkim] list vs contributor signatures, was Wrong Discussion

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/29/2010 01:12 PM, SM wrote: At 11:12 29-04-10, Michael Thomas wrote: With respect to DKIM, anybody who filters based on broken signatures without any (or little) other input pretty much deserves the false positive rate they're complaining about. This mailing list removes the DKIM

Re: [ietf-dkim] Wrong Discussion - was Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

2010-04-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/27/2010 08:06 AM, John Levine wrote: Another real question, equally important: who is actually writing this BCP? Is it something that would make sense to add to the Development, Deployment and Operations document? It would probably be better to keep it separate, since it's likely to

Re: [ietf-dkim] Wrong Discussion - was Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

2010-04-26 Thread Michael Thomas
MH Michael Hammer (5304) wrote: I think we are having the wrong discussion. The real question is: What are appropriate practices for mailing lists in handling DKIM signed mail? By focusing on John and his single example we are looking at a tree and not the forest. This may not be the best

Re: [ietf-dkim] Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Thomas
[grr, my ntpd keeps blowing off... sorry if this is a repost] Dave CROCKER wrote: On 4/22/2010 9:34 PM, John Levine wrote: For anyone who's working on the list management BCP: I sign all my outgoing mail, and I have a feedback loop set up with Yahoo, which being very modern and advanced

Re: [ietf-dkim] Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Thomas
Dave CROCKER wrote: On 4/22/2010 9:34 PM, John Levine wrote: For anyone who's working on the list management BCP: I sign all my outgoing mail, and I have a feedback loop set up with Yahoo, which being very modern and advanced keys on signatures, not IP addresses. A few days ago I sent

Re: [ietf-dkim] Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Thomas
John Levine wrote: John, can you simply clarify the rules/logic of your FBL with Yahoo!? That will clarify this scenario considerably. It's just like the IP based FBLs that other mail systems have, only keyed on DK or DKIM d= signing domains rather than IP addresses. I tell them what

Re: [ietf-dkim] Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Thomas
MH Michael Hammer (5304) wrote: But are you (people we can have a reasonable expectation that we can somewhat trust to act responsibly) the rule or are you the exception? I think I tend to agree with Steve. Notify all parties that assert responsibility. That would include the author

Re: [ietf-dkim] Why mailing lists should strip DKIM signatures

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Thomas
Al Iverson wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:58 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: But John made a private arrangement with Yahoo that if there was a complaint about a mail and he DKIM signed it then Yahoo should send the complaint to him as part of it's FBL offering. They did exactly what

Re: [ietf-dkim] IDNs, was Proposed new charter

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Thomas
Barry Leiba wrote: is no because IDNs themselves don't really work today, as a practical matter, in the context of email. What is clear is that folks from DKIM need to track and perhaps influence EAI. Does this, then, turn into another item on the new charter? Work with the EAI

[ietf-dkim] Broken signature analysis (was: Proposed new charter)

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Thomas
I'm sort of dubious about this. Unless you're using z=, your chances of figuring out why something broke are slim to none. With z=, your chances of figuring it out are merely slim. Mike, with far too much experience at that On 02/24/2010 02:17 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I support this.

Re: [ietf-dkim] Broken signature analysis

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 02/24/2010 08:54 AM, Mark Delany wrote: On Feb 24, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm sort of dubious about this. Unless you're using z=, your chances of figuring out why something broke are slim to none. With z=, your chances of figuring it out are merely slim. Mike, with far

Re: [ietf-dkim] Broken signature analysis

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Thomas
. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Michael Thomas Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:47 AM To: Mark Delany Cc: IETF DKIM WG Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Broken signature analysis But I guess this all

Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM charter update proposal

2009-10-25 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/24/2009 11:40 PM, SM wrote: At 20:19 24-10-2009, Scott Kitterman wrote: Where I disagree is that we have a sufficient basis to declare it stable. The interoperability issues have been addressed in the implementation I use. There are still some quirks which are MTA related. I think

Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM charter update proposal

2009-10-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/23/2009 05:08 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: Jim Fenton wrote: Good question. I wasn't proposing that we judge usefulness at all; I was responding to suggestions from others that measuring usefulness be included in the charter. Well, I can certainly understand producing documents that

Re: [ietf-dkim] Issue: Deployment Guide Section 6.1/6.5 (ADSP/Forwader) conflict

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Thomas
I haven't seen the various lists proposals but two things: 1) what to do with ADSP discard is a legitimate discussion for list software 2) what to do with ALL is NOT. A list that discards or otherwise rejects a submission *solely* on ALL is BROKEN. Doubly so if the ALL message had a

Re: [ietf-dkim] Thomas Interpretation vs. Levine Interpretation, it's' both!

2009-10-18 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/17/2009 08:36 PM, hector wrote: This this mean, if I read you and thomas right, DKIM=ALL means 3rd party signers are possible without valid 1st signatures? Manifestly this is possible. All just says what the author's sender does as a matter of policy/practice. It can't build an electric

Re: [ietf-dkim] Issue: Deployment Guide Section 6.1/6.5 (ADSP/Forwader) conflict

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/2009 01:02 PM, J.D. Falk wrote: Charles Lindsey wrote: All of them are a proper subject of discussion, should this WG decide to embark on such a BCP (and the misunderstandings repeatedly displayed here seem to suggest that something of the sort is needed). Agreed, except for one

Re: [ietf-dkim] Is anyone using ADSP? - bit more data from the receiving side

2009-10-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/14/2009 09:44 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: i...@sussex.ac.uk [mailto:i...@sussex.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:53 AM To: Murray S. Kucherawy; John R. Levine; Daniel Black Cc: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Is anyone using

Re: [ietf-dkim] Is anyone using ADSP? - bit more data from the receiving side

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/12/2009 11:18 PM, Franck Martin wrote: But all the current list servers are stupid because this are ignoring RFC 5617, because RFC 5617 did not exist at the time they were deployed. You do not expect that the whole world will upgrade their list servers because you say so? So for

Re: [ietf-dkim] Resigner Support of RFC 5617 (ADSP)

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Thomas
This is surreal. We have both Crocker and Levine claiming that the *published* semantics of RFC5617 are either not what it says, or should be ignored because they don't like it. Jim is under no obligation to produce evidence for you; evidence which is -- of course -- conveniently a negative which

Re: [ietf-dkim] Resigner Support of RFC 5617 (ADSP)

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/11/2009 03:26 PM, Michael Deutschmann wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Michael Thomas wrote: On 10/11/2009 02:41 AM, Michael Deutschmann wrote: If this is indeed the official semantics of the protocol, then I would petition to add a dkim=except-mlist policy. Which means I sign everything

Re: [ietf-dkim] The mystery of third party signatures

2009-10-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/06/2009 10:30 AM, bill.ox...@cox.com wrote: C) I can sell the ability to do 3rd party DKIM signing for those companies who are described in A) If you're getting paid for signing somebody else's traffic, doesn't it make sense that the service can do some hand holding to get their DNS set

Re: [ietf-dkim] The mystery of third party signatures

2009-10-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/06/2009 03:08 PM, Franck Martin wrote: Practicalities, which explained the failure of PGP and S/MINE. Great protocol, except they are unworkable for the common user, like most security protocols coming out of IETF (and it is not me who is saying it but I heard it in a variation from

Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM charter update proposal

2009-10-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Eliot Lear wrote: Hi Murray, On 10/1/09 10:27 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: How can one forget that which was never true to begin with? The working group and its antecedents, as far as I'm aware, have always been pretty adamant about the fact that reducing spam has never been one of

Re: [ietf-dkim] Escaping things in key/ADSP records

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/03/2009 09:13 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Steve Atkins Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 6:34 PM To: DKIM WG Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Escaping things in key/ADSP records

Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM adoption

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 08/03/2009 11:01 AM, Mark Delany wrote: On Aug 3, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Douglas Otis wrote: On 8/2/09 1:06 AM, Mark Delany wrote: On Aug 1, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Franck Martin wrote: But is ICANN supposed to clean all these random valid domains? You half-joke, but one of the arguments we

Re: [ietf-dkim] Agenda for IETF 75

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Thomas
IIRC, we showed interoperability with all aspects of the spec. In particular, both Murray's and mine have had the ability to do everything, but Tony's, Arvil's, the folks at Port 25 and most of the other mature implementations all interoperated, where mature was two years ago. I imagine that

Re: [ietf-dkim] Modified Introduction text for rfc4871-errata (resend)

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Thomas
Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: DKIM's purpose has been lost with the continued out of scope undefined reputation modeling. A concern raised over and over again, Assessment | Reputation - wink wink, same thing when it come to coding it. Word smithing does not solve implementation issues. I

Re: [ietf-dkim] Modified Introduction text for rfc4871-errata (resend)

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Thomas
Dave CROCKER wrote: Steve Atkins wrote: Given that the RHS of i= is either identical or a subdomain of d= it's nonsensical to consider i= more stable than d=, as i= must change if d= does. In fact, other than the right-hand root of the i= string which must match the d= string,

Re: [ietf-dkim] Modified Introduction text for rfc4871-errata (resend)

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Thomas
Will somebody please tell the editor that this still violates our charter since reputation is out of scope? Thank you. Mike Dave CROCKER wrote: Jim Fenton wrote: I do have a problem with the last paragraph: tFor signers and assessors that have been using the i= tag for

Re: [ietf-dkim] list expanders (was Re: chained signatures, was l= summary)

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Thomas
J.D. Falk wrote: Very good point; thanks for discerning the difference. At its core, I think, this is the all-too-common battle between the Platonic Ideal of Email and the reality. In this reality, intermediaries change messages. Sounds like a few folks on this list don't want messages

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