Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Matt Simerson m...@tnpi.net To: dmarc@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 10:01:37 PM Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change) On Jun 3, 2014, at 8:44 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: Yes

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: Yes the email is legitimate, but how does the MTA knows it? Aha! Precisely where this conversation should go. The MTA *doesn't* know. A mailing list knows more, though. And an MUA knows a lot more than that. Or they could. For bandwidth reasons, it's important

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread John Levine
But that is not equivalent to putting non-resolvable gibberish on the right side of the @ sign. That's a reliable way of assuring that such messages do not get queued on my server. As a matter of practicality, I highly doubt that I'm unique in requiring that the sender domain (envelope and

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread Hector Santos
John, I doubt these aol and yahoo users give a hoot of what u snuck into your small local site. The odds are high these kind of addresses were first used for junk, aliases, throw away addresses like most people did with these public email service bureaus. Sure, for many, these public addresses

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hector Santos writes: [Mail From: a domain under .INVALID] is not legitimate mail per the proposed security protocol. Sorry, in this subthread, legitimate, as used by Franck and myself, means delivery desired by the addressee. If you want to insist on a different definition, go ahead, but

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread Kurt Andersen
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Nor does DMARC say it's nonconforming; in fact, it automatically passes identity alignment, because there's nobody who is allowed to create domains under .invalid, so there can be no _dmarc.x.y.invalid. Actually,

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kurt Andersen writes: On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Nor does DMARC say it's nonconforming; in fact, it automatically passes identity alignment, because there's nobody who is allowed to create domains under .invalid, so there can be

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread Douglas Otis
On Jun 4, 2014, at 12:16 PM, J. Gomez jgo...@seryrich.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 04, 2014 12:14 AM [GMT+1=CET], Hector Santos wrote: I prefer to update my software with the above script for our MTA receiver rather to add logic to rewrite the 5322.From to bypass a security protocol

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-04 Thread J. Gomez
On Wednesday, June 04, 2014 10:56 PM [GMT+1=CET], Douglas Otis wrote: On Jun 4, 2014, at 12:16 PM, J. Gomez jgo...@seryrich.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 04, 2014 12:14 AM [GMT+1=CET], Hector Santos wrote: I prefer to update my software with the above script for our MTA receiver

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Elizabeth Zwicky writes: At this point, I do not see going to p=quarantine in the hope that attackers won't exploit data they already have exactly the same way Has Yahoo! has already tried 'p=quarantine', or is that merely your expert opinion? (Nothing against expertise, but experiment

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: But why would you accept emails from invalid domains in the first instance? Because the email is legitimate, of course. I've seen people use example.com in their addresses on list posts to ensure they won't get personal replies. I've seen people use

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-03 Thread Elizabeth Zwicky
On 6/3/14, 4:26 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Elizabeth Zwicky writes: At this point, I do not see going to p=quarantine in the hope that attackers won't exploit data they already have exactly the same way Has Yahoo! has already tried 'p=quarantine', or is that

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-03 Thread John Levine
Yes the email is legitimate, but how does the MTA knows it? Well a bayesian filter has learned that this type of content is legitimate, and then one day a spammer uses the same content, but change one link... That could happen to any mail feature you care to name. Big companies send buckets of

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-03 Thread Matt Simerson
On Jun 3, 2014, at 8:44 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: Yes the email is legitimate, but how does the MTA knows it? Well a bayesian filter has learned that this type of content is legitimate, and then one day a spammer uses the same content, but change one link... That could

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-02 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Stephen J. Turnbull turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp To: Tony Hansen t...@att.com Cc: dmarc@ietf.org Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 12:28:21 AM Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change) Tony Hansen writes: I would love

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-06-02 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Kurt Andersen kander...@linkedin.com To: Stephen J. Turnbull turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp, Tony Hansen t...@att.com Cc: dmarc@ietf.org Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 12:55:39 PM Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-31 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Elizabeth Zwicky writes: So changes that maintain effective protection for users who are being targeted by attackers with addressbook information, with less disruption to email that people want, are of great interest to us. How about trying p=quarantine with a real short TTL just in case?

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-31 Thread John Levine
That's okay -- it was just a thought. However, note that not all MLMs are in as good a shape as GNU Mailman is, volunteer-wise. For *them*, it might be useful. I wouldn't count on it. I did .invalid patches for majordomo2, which is largely abandonware but still used a fair number of places.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-30 Thread Douglas Otis
Dear Tony, See comments inline: On May 29, 2014, at 8:11 PM, Tony Hansen t...@att.com wrote: On 5/28/14, 6:46 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: Anything that requires mailing list software to change won't work. I'm going to push back on this statement. I think we keep getting stuck on the mantra

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-30 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Scott Kitterman skl...@kitterman.com wrote: The reason there is no IETF working group is that the people behind DMARC were unwilling to entertain participation in a working group that had a charter that allowed for any chance of a change to the DMARC protocol.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On May 30, 2014 3:37:28 AM EDT, Murray S. Kucherawy superu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Scott Kitterman skl...@kitterman.com wrote: The reason there is no IETF working group is that the people behind DMARC were unwilling to entertain participation in a working group

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-30 Thread Elizabeth Zwicky
On 5/29/14, 8:44 PM, Scott Kitterman skl...@kitterman.com wrote: DMARC change is even more off the table than MLM software change (which does, as you suggest, evolve over time). DMARC changes are not off the table for Yahoo. Right now, the option that best serves the majority of our customers

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, May 30, 2014 17:07:30 Elizabeth Zwicky wrote: On 5/29/14, 8:44 PM, Scott Kitterman skl...@kitterman.com wrote: DMARC change is even more off the table than MLM software change (which does, as you suggest, evolve over time). DMARC changes are not off the table for Yahoo. Right

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-30 Thread Steven M Jones
On 05/30/2014 11:28 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: I am of the opinion that the technical DMARC protocols (including p=reject) are fine. I have not heard of any complaint about use by banks (Bank of America joined the ranks of p=reject banks some time in the last 10 days AFAICT). Have there

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists

2014-05-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Douglas Otis writes: There are many cases that are never originally signed by the DMARC domain. Such as an accounting package that sends out invoices on behalf of some company that wants their email address in the From header since this is what their customers will recognize. I don't

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists

2014-05-29 Thread Douglas Otis
On May 29, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Douglas Otis writes: There are many cases that are never originally signed by the DMARC domain. Such as an accounting package that sends out invoices on behalf of some company that wants their email address in the

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-29 Thread Tony Hansen
On 5/28/14, 6:46 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: Anything that requires mailing list software to change won't work. I'm going to push back on this statement. I think we keep getting stuck on the mantra that the mailing list software won't change. However, the majority of the mailing list software

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists (rebutting MLs won't change)

2014-05-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 23:11:28 Tony Hansen wrote: On 5/28/14, 6:46 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: Anything that requires mailing list software to change won't work. I'm going to push back on this statement. I think we keep getting stuck on the mantra that the mailing list software won't change.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists

2014-05-28 Thread Barry Leiba
We could attempt to define a dkim canonicalization that would pass through a mailing list. This was beaten pretty severely during the DKIM work, and we couldn't come up with anything that was workable. It should include the subject, but have rules for stripping standard subject prefixes. It

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists

2014-05-28 Thread Douglas Otis
On May 28, 2014, at 4:05 PM, Brandon Long bl...@google.com wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.org wrote: We could attempt to define a dkim canonicalization that would pass through a mailing list. This was beaten pretty severely during the DKIM

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists

2014-05-28 Thread Arvel Hathcock
Anything that requires mailing list software to change won't work. If mailing list software is changed, the right answer is for the mailing list to re-sign the message. That doesn't help the DMARC situation now, but DMARC could be given other options once that happens. That's right. But

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists

2014-05-28 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/28/2014 6:47 PM, Arvel Hathcock wrote: That's right. But maybe there could be a multipart/dkim type that lets several signatures exist in a message - all of which could potentially verify with different d=. Hi Arvel. Great to see you re-entering the fray... Picking a nit: It's not a

Re: [dmarc-ietf] DKIM through mailing lists

2014-05-28 Thread Hector Santos
On 5/28/2014 9:47 PM, Arvel Hathcock wrote: Anything that requires mailing list software to change won't work. If mailing list software is changed, the right answer is for the mailing list to re-sign the message. That doesn't help the DMARC situation now, but DMARC could be given other