On Tuesday 01 August 2006 10:00, John Levine wrote:
> >As I read the later case, the only signature present (C's) is not one that
> > is included in A's SSP.  In this case we have a message with a signature
> > that is outside the scope what A has said is authorized (or not included
> > in A's authoritative list).  If A is a high profile phishing target and
> > signs all of it's mail, then it would be useful (I think) for receivers
> > to recognize that the message has been signed by someone other than who A
> > said it would.
>
> Why do you want to prevent people from forwarding genuine, unmodified
> messages?  That's a feature, not a bug.
>
In this scenario, A has said that it signs all it's messages and it's 
signature is not verifiably present.  I don't want to prevent people from 
forwarding genuine unmodified messages.  This is a case where a signature 
that the SSP of A has said is to be expected is missing, not standard 
forwarding.

> If ebay sends a message with a valid ebay signature, how can any chain
> of forwarding and added signatures change the fact that it's a real
> ebay message?  Let's assume that ebay has enough sense to sign its
> MIME headers and not to use l=, so the message that's delivered is the
> same one that was sent.
>
Agreed.  As Stephen pointed out, it's the absence of A's signature that is the 
real point I'm driving at.

Scott K
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