> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Steve Atkins
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 9:14 AM
> To: DKIM List
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] New canonicalizations
> 
> The most obvious thing that MLMs do that invalidate signatures are 1.
> append content to the body and 2. prepend content to the subject line.
> Any approach that allows me to replay messages while making those
> changes seems to open the door to abuse.

Agree on all counts.  And I talked to the Mailman people, for example, about a 
modified header canonicalization that deals with Subject: tagging, and they 
also agreed it wouldn't help that much since that's not the most common change 
made that would invalidate the signatures.

So as far as I can tell, we're at a point where lots of people think they want 
MLM survivability of signatures, or at least the chain-of-trust capability, but 
no proof that the increased risk is worth the increased gain.

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