On 5/23/11 6:35 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
>> In the real world signature reliability matters. If a domain signs mail
>> as a rule then an absent or broken signature will be treated as
>> suspicious.
> I hope you're wrong, since that violates an explicit SHOULD in RFC 4871,
> and in my experience, most broken signatures are due to innocent
> modification in transit, not malice.
>
> Do you have numbers to show that broken signatures indicate that messages
> are malicious, or spam, or otherwise worse than otherwise?

SpamAssassin assigns a score of something like 0.1 for a message 
carrying a DKIM signature and compensates that with -0.1 if the 
signature can be verified to be correct. Effectively, this means SA is 
penalizing broken signatures...

/rolf
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