On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
>> This hasn't been a problem before.  Although you've always been
>> allowed to use weak signatures, there's been no advantage to doing so,
>> so nobody did.  Now you do, but with new semantics that you shouldn't
>> pay much (any?) attention to that signature unless it's paired with
>> the forwarder's.  One could make an argument that it's not technically
>> a semantic change to DKIM (indeed, Dave just did), but in practical
>> terms, it is likely to interact poorly with existing unupgraded
>> software, so I'd want a version bump so that the old software ignores
>> the special purpose signature.
>>
>
> I see your point, though it seems strange to do a version bump when that's
> really the only change to the bits on the wire, and the only real change
> then is how the signatures are interpreted; syntax vs. semantics.
>

Hmm:

DKIM-Signature: v=1; d=example.com; ...
DKIM-Signature: v=2; l=0; d=example.com; rsf=to,cc,trusted-lists.example.org;
...

"rsf" = "require signature from", with "to" and "cc" being special case
keywords with the obvious meaning.

You have something like that in mind?

-MSK
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