On Sunday, January 30, 2022 11:14:18 AM EST John R Levine wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2022, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> > Let me ask if the following scenario is possible at all:
> > 
> > .BANK admins decide to setup a DKIM signing service for .bank domains. 
> > They register dkim.bank, and accept and relay messages originating from
> > their customers, signing them with d=dkim.bank.  (Compare to
> > onmicrosoft.com?)
> Sounds like a bad idea, but OK for now ...  I note that onmicrosoft.com is
> an MTA farm, and they have ways to apply valid customer DKIM signatures if
> they want to.
> 
> > They may consider that a tangible way to protect .bank domains.
> 
> No, they won't.  See below.
> 
> > Will that work to validate, say, mail From: [email protected]?
> 
> No, of course not.  dkim.bank is no different from any other domain
> registered under .bank.
> 
> Scott knows better than me, but my understanding of PSD is that it's a way
> to check wheter registrants have published the DMARC policies they are
> supposed to, and to provide a backstop until they do, not another way to
> try and circumvent broken configurations.
> 
> PSDs only make sense in TLDs (or TL-ish Ds) that have a strong enough
> relationship with their registrants to require DMARC policies.  That's one
> of the many reasons you'll never see a PSD in .com or .org or .hockey.

I believe that's largely correct.  It also gives a mechanism to apply DMARC 
policies to non-existent domains, which has some value for dealing with 
unregistered entities subject to spoofing.

Scott K


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