On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:28:52 -0000, Hector Santos <[email protected]> wrote:
>> - eBay and PayPal: signs non-existent Resent-From, preventing resending > > Another case of BLIND signing! Read the freaking specs!! Not necessarily. Signing a non-existent header is a valid way of preventing it being added subsequently, and maybe that is what you want (e.g. in this case if the mail is "for original recipient's eyes only"). Not that Ebay and Paypal were necessarily trying to do that, although they are the sort of organisations that just might want to do it in specific situations. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
