[dmarc-ietf] Friends of Email dinner in Philadelphia, Thursday July 28 at 7:30pm

2022-07-06 Thread Bron Gondwana
just an indication of approximate numbers so we choose somewhere suitable for the size of party. Cheers, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Friends of Email dinner in Philadelphia, Thursday July 28 at 7:30pm

2022-07-28 Thread Bron Gondwana
We don't have a table yet, but we have a bar tab :) come find me in my Fastmail tshirt and say hi! On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, at 18:07, Bron Gondwana wrote: > Hopefully I've hit the key working groups where those who are friends of > email (or email-adjacent stuff like calendars a

[dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-06 Thread Bron Gondwana
is the hash of the associated AAR) A more cheap and nasty fix, assuming it's too late/complex to change the protocol more, would be to keep AS, but change the validation to only require checking the most recent AS, since validating the rest is meaningless. Cheers, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-07 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, at 00:50, Tim Draegen wrote: >> On Aug 7, 2017, at 1:21 AM, Bron Gondwana >> wrote:>> >> A more cheap and nasty fix, assuming it's too late/complex to change >> the protocol more, would be to keep AS, but change the validation to >>

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-07 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, at 00:50, Tim Draegen wrote: >> On Aug 7, 2017, at 1:21 AM, Bron Gondwana >> wrote:>> >> A more cheap and nasty fix, assuming it's too late/complex to change >> the protocol more, would be to keep AS, but change the validation to >>

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-07 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, at 09:22, Seth Blank wrote: > On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> *AS adds nothing over just having AMS > signing its own AAR, and then >> you only have to verify ONE signature, the most recent.*>> >> >> >>

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-08 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, at 23:36, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> >> . . . If you aren't willing to agree that the most recent liar can >> repurpose an existing chain, I'm happy to avoid making th

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
e from this list if I'm going to make a proof of concept to show what I mean, but nobody appears to be sending messages with ARC headers on them here! Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
IM, then adding an AMS for messages which are modified (e.g. by Groups) > Also, you wouldn't expect to see arc signed messages from this list > until it starts doing them itself, unless people are posting to it > though another intermediary or you receive it through a separate > interme

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
s been altered) ARC-Seal: v=2 pass ARC-Message-Signature: v=2 fail (message has been altered) ARC-Seal: v=1 pass ARC-Message-Signature: v=1 fail (message has been altered) The fact that there is an intact chain of ARC-Seal is pointless here. And as I have (hopefully successfully) argued above, if a

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, at 10:04, Dave Crocker wrote: > On 8/11/2017 4:54 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, at 03:22, Dave Crocker wrote: >> >> I'm just picking out the key quote here: >> >>> On 8/7/2017 4:22 PM, Seth Blank wrote: >>>

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, at 10:16, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> . . . it's a bad idea to sign if you're not modifying, because then >> everybody has to trust you or their chain breaks, even though

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC signing when *not* modifying the message...

2017-08-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, at 10:36, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote: > Splitting out this discussion point into a new thread... > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> >> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, at 10:16, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote: >>> On Fri,

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC signing when *not* modifying the message...

2017-08-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, at 10:54, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> >> >> >> Again - why seal on ingress? It's bogus. >> >> * check authentication on ingress >> * add au

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, at 05:42, Brandon Long wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, at 03:22, Dave Crocker wrote: >> >> I'm just picking out the key quote here: >> >> >>>

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, at 10:46, Seth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> >>> If there is a non-participating intermediary, either the message >>> wasn't modified (so the next hop passes arc) or it was (and the next >>

[dmarc-ietf] Prove me wrong!

2017-08-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
rds, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
's my fallback position if I can't convince people that AS is pointless. It's not my preferred position, which is where I went in response to Brandon's post. >> We should have AMS sign all the AAR and that's it. No AS, no need to >> retain broken AMS.>> &g

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Prove me wrong!

2017-08-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
d inject the headers from it to an email generated at site3.com. Since site3.com is "bad", it can falsify all the mail flow after site2.com added its ARC headers, and it can falsify it on any email that followed a different path out of site2 originally. So we don't even know that sit

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
y has DMARC p=reject to change that to a new policy which explicitly means "only reject if no ARC chain" - otherwise you can't stop rewriting sender until you know that every receiver on your list is ARC-aware. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com _

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, at 10:34, Seth Blank wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> The only way you could even hope (as a > mailing list) to avoid >> rewriting the sender is for every site that currently has DMARC >> p=reject to change

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, at 11:32, Seth Blank wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> While there exists A SINGLE SITE which is > ARC-unaware and DMARC >> p=reject aware, you can't use ARC on a DMARC p=reject domain without >> rewriting

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-17 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, at 15:28, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> While there exists A SINGLE SITE which is > ARC-unaware and DMARC >> p=reject aware, you can't use ARC on a DMARC p=reject domain without >> rewri

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-17 Thread Bron Gondwana
ed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, at 10:34, Seth Blank wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Bron Gondwana >>> wrote:>>>> The only way you could even hope (as a >>> mailing list) t

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-17 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, at 04:48, Seth Blank wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> I laugh as well, but it's more than > p=reject isn't enough in the ARC >> world, because it doesn't distinguish between:>> a) I'm

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
ing the > AMS would be a sign to downstream intermediaries that the prior DKIM > or AMS was still valid upon egress. (certain details would have to be > worked out)> > Does that help the conversation? On this I agree with Seth. removing AMS breaks AS, and I see even less value in

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
on (an email on Aug 9th to this list and CCd to me which then got resent from a different address) This will be accepted by an ARC-aware receiver unless I'm on a blacklist, despite the p=reject. Creating a new domain and putting a key in its DNS is pretty trivial - so I guess the question is,

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
that the payload was unmodified since it left the jurisdiction which had access to the private key for its signing domain. ARC as currently defined is weak on maintaining provenance on the payload. But provenance on the payload is what really matters, because falsifying the payload is where attacks against email integrity get their value. Bron. [1] footnote on this - I have alluded to crypto header rewriting such that you can't rewind. I'll write a separate email on that topic. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

[dmarc-ietf] About "non-rewindable crypto"

2017-08-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
uing? It's bound to be more complex than ARC-as-defined, but it also makes faking mail flows a lot harder, because you would have to intercept the message between site3 and site4 if you wanted to fake the mail flow from site3 - you couldn't just pick it up later. Bron. -- Bron

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
able to track the provenance on individual parts of the message payload is a much stronger way to determine who is at fault when bad content is being injected than just knowing some bits of the message handling chain. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC-Seal is meaningless security theatre

2017-08-19 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, at 16:33, Hector Santos wrote: > On 8/16/2017 8:21 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, at 03:46, Hector Santos wrote: >>> On 8/13/2017 10:28 AM, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Hector Santos

Re: [dmarc-ietf] About "non-rewindable crypto"

2017-08-20 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, at 09:34, Hector Santos wrote: > On 8/18/2017 8:53 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > >> ... >> >> And the message still arrives at receiver with a valid ARC >> chain, just>> via badsite.com instead of site3.com. > > The same receiver? I

Re: [dmarc-ietf] About "non-rewindable crypto"

2017-08-20 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, at 10:04, Hector Santos wrote: > On 8/20/2017 7:47 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, at 09:34, Hector Santos wrote: >>> On 8/18/2017 8:53 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> And the message

Re: [dmarc-ietf] ARC draft-08 updates to section 5.1 and WG questions

2017-09-05 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, at 07:52, Seth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:> > That seems like it would be enough to fix > that objection. An > > additional "first AMS failure" header at each hop would give you a > > list

Re: [dmarc-ietf] New drafts of ARC protocol (10) & usage (03) posted

2017-12-21 Thread Bron Gondwana
ason to MUST that every implementation support signing and verifying at least two currently presumed strong algorithms at the start, so if one is found wanting we can immediately deprecate it and everyone can just turn on the other algorithm in their software configuration. Br

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Clarifying the value of arc.closest-fail

2018-01-02 Thread Bron Gondwana
captured in this snippet:> > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> >> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, at 07:52, Seth Blank wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Bron Gondwana >>> wrote:>>> > That seems like it would be

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Clarifying the value of arc.closest-fail

2018-01-03 Thread Bron Gondwana
care what it's called, or if it is "oldest- valid" or "newest-invalid" or whatever, so long as the thing I do care about can be accurately extracted. I'd also like to know the bootstrap pre-ARC case, which thankfully AAR contains as dkim=pass, spf=pass, etc.

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Clarifying the value of arc.closest-fail

2018-01-03 Thread Bron Gondwana
I assume this was the one that you wanted my clarification on? On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, at 12:56, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:39 AM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> >> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, at 04:34, Kurt Andersen (b) wrote: >>> As I wen

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Clarifying the value of arc.closest-fail

2018-01-04 Thread Bron Gondwana
Instance number please. Less calculation. On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, at 16:18, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Kurt Andersen (b) > wrote:>> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Bron Gondwana >> wrote:>>> __ >>> I assume this was the one

[dmarc-ietf] Approval of draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-protocol-16

2018-07-24 Thread Bron Gondwana
tal standard to encourage more deployment so we can collect data on real mail flows is important too. Cheers, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Approval of draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-protocol-16

2018-07-25 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018, at 04:57, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 3:55 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> __ >> This isn't a detailed review, because I haven't had time to do it, but I've >> been following the process and I'm happy that ARC-16

Re: [dmarc-ietf] WGLC ARC-16 concern on Section 5.1.2 - cv=fail should sign greedily

2018-07-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
ARC are all fails in your Authentication-Results, any earlier ARC and DKIM headers have no provable causal relationship with the rest of the message you received. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

Re: [dmarc-ietf] WGLC ARC-16 concern on Section 5.1.2 - cv=fail should sign greedily

2018-07-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018, at 11:12, Seth Blank wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Bron Gondwana > wrote:>> __ >> >> The only thing your ARC Seal will validate is your own ARC-Authentication- >> Results header - which isn't nothing (it could contain the I

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Concerns about Oldest-Pass (was: Last Call: ...)

2018-11-06 Thread Bron Gondwana
dditional field than to take something out, so I don't object to simplifying and seeing what happens. Particularly since we're experimental. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com ___ dmarc mailing list dmarc@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc

[dmarc-ietf] Friends of email dinner at IETF118

2023-11-06 Thread Bron Gondwana
you're not going to be in that session but do want to come to the dinner, then let us know via email. If you're not in Prague, I'm sorry you're missing out, and we'll drink a beer for you. Cheers, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com