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In message <[email protected]>, Vittorio
<[email protected]> writes

>>> Header recipes declare voluntary modifications. An attacker injecting 
>>> a
>>> forged X-Original-Sender will not declare it in a recipe.
>> 
>> so I should hope... though I don't think the text for validation
>> currently covers that. Perhaps it should
>I agree, it should.

the rest of the text shows that you misunderstood ... I was suggesting
that providing a recipe for a header that you do not need to provide a
recipe for should be a verification error

>The specification currently generates a body recipe for every 
>modification to the message body, however minor. Yet the entire X-* 
>namespace, including headers that carry antispam scores, authenticated 
>user identities and original sender information, is excluded from 
>signing by design. An intermediary that adds a comma to the body must 
>declare it in a recipe. An intermediary that injects 
>X-Authenticated-User: [email protected] 

the only organisation that does that and has sent me mail this year (and
I receive a LOT of email) is megamailservers.eu -- and they did not
DKIM1 sign it (and I suspect they have not thought it through especially
well since that piece of personal information is not at all the same as
the identity in the From: header field)

>generates no signal at all. This 
>proposal does not ask to sign all X-* headers. It asks the working group 
>to converge on a fixed subset of X-* headers related to spam 
>classification, virus scanning and delivery tracking that should be 
>included in the signed set.

I don't see the WG responding to your invitation at present.

- -- 
richard @ highwayman . com                       "Nothing seems the same
                          Still you never see the change from day to day
                                And no-one notices the customs slip away"

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