> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:ietf-dkim-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Otis
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:18 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Wrong Discussion - was Why mailing lists
> should strip DKIM signatures
> 
> While messages with intact DKIM signatures of financial institutions
> offers reasonable protection, acceptance of broken signatures validated
> by some third-party's authentication-results header would impose
> significant risk.    Any mailing list that does remove
> authentication-results headers would provide easy exploits of X.

True, if you ignore the main point that got this started: Z trusts Y to do 
authentication properly and make correct assertions via Authentication-Results. 
 The "trust" here has been established out-of-band.  In essence, then, Z treats 
what Y is saying as always true because of some audit that was done on the work 
done at Y.

I didn't suggest this should be generally true.


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