I don't have a strong horse in this race. But I'll just chime in that from
my perspective I was thinking of both of these as DKIM Replay. I have been
calling any case where the DKIM signature is not broken and the spammer
resends multiple copies as DKIM Replay.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 11:20 AM John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:

> It appears that Evan Burke  <evan.s.bu...@gmail.com> said:
> >> Insisting on using the same term for these two different cases has an
> >> academic purity to it, but has already been demonstrated to be
> destructive
> >> in practical terms, because it creates confused discussion.
>
> >No, that's exactly backwards. The oversigning case is a subset of the
> >general DKIM replay case, because mitigation techniques for general DKIM
> >replay - they do exist, though they are imperfect - also apply to cases
> >where header addition has taken place. Oversigning is a defense against
> the
> >subset of DKIM replay where headers have been added, but not the general
> >case.
>
> I think you've rather proved Dave's point. Resending the identical
> message and mutating a signed message with duplicate headers are
> different problems even though they have some technical overlap.
>
> I don't really care what people call them but it would be nice if they
> had different names so we don't have to use six round trip messages
> each time to figure out which one we're referring to.
>
> Pretty much everywhere except this mailing list "DKIM Replay" means
> the former, resending the identical message.
>
> R's,
> John
>
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