> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Wietse Venema
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 1:16 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] detecting header mutations after signing
> 
> What I describe would be a best practice application of DKIM
> mechanisms that already exist.
> 
> Mail is signed as if there are N+1 instances of each header that
> is covered by the DKIM signature.  The verifier will then fail if
> any such header is added after-the-fact.
> 
> With this, there is no need to rely on enforcement mechanisms
> outside DKIM, such as the correct implementation of RFC 5322.

I would suggest constraining that to include only those fields that are 0-or-1 
in RFC5322 Section 3.6.  For example, doing this with Received: is begging for 
signature invalidation on otherwise unaltered messages.

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