On Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:00:46 AM Kurt Andersen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>
> 
> wrote:
> > It might be useful though to have some opt-in mechanism for DMARC senders
> > to
> > get an additional query for verification purposes.
> > 
> > Concept:
> > 
> > Participating senders add a new optional tag to their DMARC record,
> > something
> > like yaimfs=y and a new field in the header that is something like:
> > 
> > yaimfs-id: localpart@domain
> > 
> > Domain must be aligned with the From domain
> > 
> > For mail that passes DMARC, no changes are made.  If a message fails DMARC
> > checks and both the DMARC record (which is already in the local cache) has
> > yaimfs=y and the message has yaimfs-id is possible, then the receiver
> > sends a
> > DNS query to message-id.yamfsidlocalpart._dmarc.domain.  The sender then
> > replies pass/fail/error.
> > 
> > I suggest message ID be included since it's supposed to be globally unique
> > to
> > reduce the risk of collision.
> > 
> > This idea effectively would create a new authentication protocol based on
> > direct query/feedback and extend DMARC to use it.  It would be totally
> > opt-in.
> 
> Interesting idea - essentially it would allow senders to provide an
> independent authorization channel for messages. What worries me, is why a
> sender would sanction a message that presumably has been sufficiently
> altered as to fail DKIM validation without knowing something about the
> content as received.
> 
> It seems somewhat like saying that if you get a check (the old-fashioned
> paper kind), that if you call me and tell me what color the paper is, then
> you can cash the check (presuming that the color is correct). I would not,
> personally, be granting any such approvals.

I think it's a bit more than that.  It's more like "Give me the serial number"  
"Oh, I just wrote a check with the number 30 seconds ago, OK"  

I agree it's not a 100% secure solution since there's a replay risk, but the 
risk is less than with the fs= proposal.

Scott K

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