On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 03:21:35PM -0800, Markley, Mike allegedly wrote:
> Jim Fenton asked me to write a blurb on this after discussing it with
> him at the DKIM conference in Santa Clara.
> 
> My understanding of the rules around the domain and the identity of a
> message is that the identity (i=) must always be the same as the domain
> (d=), OR a subdomain of it. Then, the public key published at
> <selector>._domainkey.<domain> will be looked up.
> 
> I am not, however, aware of any mechanism for preventing a malicious TLD

Presumably a malicious TLD operator can also change what name servers
answer for your domain in which case they can completely assume your
identity as far as DKIM is concerned.


Mark.
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