It appears that Alessandro Vesely  <[email protected]> said:
>I'm not clear about the last but one paragraph of that section:
>
>    An example of such an attack includes altering the MIME structure,
>    exploiting lax HTML parsing in the MUA, and defeating duplicate
>    message detection algorithms.
>
>I'm going to file an errata about it.  Altering the MIME structure is only 
>possible if the value of l= is less than the original message length. 

I wish you hadn't.  I think the original concern was for sloppy MIME that
forgot the -- after the last part.

>Anyway, I wouldn't want to authenticate a message that underwent an HTML 
>footer 
>addition, because it can completely replace the original content in the end 
>recipient's eyes.  My draft requires footers to be plain text.

Yet that's exactly what one of the largest discussion group services in the 
world did.
As I keep pointing out, this is like an UNCOL, it does not generalize enough to 
be useful.

On the other hand, ARC handles this just fine.

R's,
John

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