More like “customer sees that DKIM is used to authenticate DNC leaks, decides 
that DKIM is a terrible idea for a political entity to have on, let alone any 
random business”.

I don’t really get your proposal here - how does it prevent post-delivery 
authentication via the RSA key?

> On Jul 11, 2020, at 07:44, Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020, Matt Corallo via mailop wrote:
> 
>> For various reasons, DKIM's non-repudiation property has always
>> prevented us deploying DKIM signing on our mail. The obvious fix for
>> this is to roll DKIM keys aggressively (eg every few minutes) and
>> publish the private keys for revoked keys as you go. Given relay
>> times for mail through various hosts, how aggressive could one
>> theoretically get without having keys time out before mail is
>> verified (ie how long must DKIM keys remain valid after mail has
>> been signed by them?).
> 
> How does this thinking go ?
> 
> You use a dedicated ip address whose name clearly identifies the customer.
> You publish the private key and *do not* roll it over (more often than 
> everyone else).
> You are a low volume sender and don't stick your head above the parapet,
> so no one bothers to make an exception to the DKIM pass.
> The "maths" is simple enough for the judge and jury.
> there is a little misuse by spammers, so the client has plausible deniability.
> 
> Problems:
> Spammers misuse you in large volume so you become visible to mail operators
> and get blocked. Yes, that is a risk that the client signs up for.
> You can roll the keys to be a good netizen, but that makes plausible 
> deniability less tenable ...
> 
> ----------------
> 
> Can you have two DKIM signatures, RSA and ECC ?
> If so does the following work ?
> You can use the simple hash-based revokation to roll the ECC key
> and limit the spam enabled by a fixed known RSA key.
> 
> I'd be asking danager money for the active effort with all this key-rolling 
> to let the client have their cake and eat it ...
> 
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