On 26 Nov 2022, at 15:20, Barry Leiba wrote:

> We have to decide whether it's worth breaking that use case in order
> to address the replay situation.  My opinion is that it's not --
> because, as I say, I rely on that use case extensively.  My system
> would have to change *significantly* in order to work around that.

On 25 Nov 2022, at 2:26, Laura Atkins wrote:

> And, I think most importantly: will this recommendation by the IETF have any 
> impact whatsoever on the groups currently using DKIM replay as a way to get 
> past (some) filters? I don’t see how it will, most of them are using their 
> own email addresses / servers to collect the replayed messages and then 
> sending the messages out through their own systems. Even if Google and 
> Microsoft and Yahoo and the other top 20 mailbox providers start stripping 
> DKIM headers, the attackers will be able to find some service somewhere that 
> doesn’t. Worst comes to worst, they stand up a MX on an EC2 instance and run 
> their own code to collect the mail.


We should use the criteria that the FDA establishes for remedies: “Is it safe 
and effective?”

Not Safe: It’s not safe because it breaks Barry’s use case above, and others 
have pointed out MUA usage of the signature.

Not Effective: Attackers can easily circumvent this by running their own MX (if 
they don’t do that already) as Laura and others have pointed out.

We should move onto better ideas.

-Jim

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