Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/23/2011 11:17 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > As an impressive example of even deeper misunderstanding: > More of CROCKER's famed civility. >> On 5/22/2011 10:49 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: >> >>> But this is exactly what DKIM is. You prove yourself fsvo "prove" >>> to the registrar who "

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/22/2011 10:43 AM, John R. Levine wrote: >> VBR queries are about an actor, not a message. >> >> Certs can be coupled to a particular message -- this was an interesting >> semantic distinction about Goodmail's certification scheme -- although I >> believe that typically they, too, are only sc

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread Hector Santos
John R. Levine wrote: >> But this is exactly what DKIM is. You prove yourself fsvo "prove" >> to the registrar who "certifies" you by virtue of placing your NS >> records in the root servers instead of issuing a cert. > > Registrars, as we all know, rarely check any credential beyond the > confir

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread J.D. Falk
On May 22, 2011, at 12:27 PM, John R. Levine wrote: > It occurs to me that since mail certification is likely to make assertions > about behavior as well as identity, the SSL model in which certs last for > a year won't work, since behavior can change rapidly. Either the > certifier has to iss

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread John R. Levine
> But this is exactly what DKIM is. You prove yourself fsvo "prove" > to the registrar who "certifies" you by virtue of placing your NS > records in the root servers instead of issuing a cert. Registrars, as we all know, rarely check any credential beyond the confirmation code from the credit car

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/22/2011 10:27 AM, John R. Levine wrote: > It occurs to me that since mail certification is likely to make assertions > about behavior as well as identity, the SSL model in which certs last for > a year won't work, since behavior can change rapidly. Either the > certifier has to issue a strea

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread John R. Levine
> VBR queries are about an actor, not a message. > > Certs can be coupled to a particular message -- this was an interesting > semantic distinction about Goodmail's certification scheme -- although I > believe that typically they, too, are only scoped to the actor, not the > specific content. N

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/22/2011 10:27 AM, John R. Levine wrote: >>> through a separate, value-added mechanism. My own preference would be for >>> using >>> a special header-field that contains the cert, with the specification of >>> using >>> such certs as saying that they are enabled when included in the set of

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread John R. Levine
>> through a separate, value-added mechanism. My own preference would be for >> using >> a special header-field that contains the cert, with the specification of >> using >> such certs as saying that they are enabled when included in the set of h= >> covered header fields. I don't see how this

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 05/22/2011 08:02 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > 3. As noted, certification was explicitly de-coupled from DKIM. I'll claim > that > it really is a separate, value-added service and any support of it should be > through a separate, value-added mechanism. My own preference would be for > using >

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/19/2011 3:17 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org >> [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Rolf E. Sonneveld ... >> recently someone asked me whether it would have any added value if the DKIM >> public key, which is

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-19 Thread John Levine
>recently someone asked me whether it would have any added value if the >DKIM public key, which is stored in DNS, would be 'certified' in some >(yet to be determined) way by a 3rd party like VeriSign, Thawte etc.? Sure. See RFC 5518. R's, John ___ NOT

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-19 Thread Hector Santos
Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: > Hi, all, > > recently someone asked me whether it would have any added value if the > DKIM public key, which is stored in DNS, would be 'certified' in some > (yet to be determined) way by a 3rd party like VeriSign, Thawte etc.? My > first reaction was, that it made n

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-19 Thread Douglas Otis
On 5/19/11 2:32 PM, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: > Hi, all, > > recently someone asked me whether it would have any added value if the > DKIM public key, which is stored in DNS, would be 'certified' in some > (yet to be determined) way by a 3rd party like VeriSign, Thawte etc.? My > first reaction was,

Re: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-19 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] > On Behalf Of Rolf E. Sonneveld > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:33 PM > To: IETF DKIM WG > Subject: [ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key? > > Hi, all, >

[ietf-dkim] Certifying the DKIM public key?

2011-05-19 Thread Rolf E. Sonneveld
Hi, all, recently someone asked me whether it would have any added value if the DKIM public key, which is stored in DNS, would be 'certified' in some (yet to be determined) way by a 3rd party like VeriSign, Thawte etc.? My first reaction was, that it made no sense, but I'm no longer sure wheth