Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-21 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:38:04PM -0700, Murray S. Kucherawy allegedly wrote: -Original Message- From: John R. Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:08 PM To: Murray S. Kucherawy Cc: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] double header

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread SM
At 17:53 19-10-10, Mark Delany wrote: In a DKIM world a list server could reasonable use DKIM to bypass this confirm sequence and make your life a bit simpler. Perhaps it relies on Authentication-Results or somesuch. In any event such a list server is actually *more* vulnerable than it is today if

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 01:41:03AM -0700, SM allegedly wrote: At 17:53 19-10-10, Mark Delany wrote: In a DKIM world a list server could reasonable use DKIM to bypass this confirm sequence and make your life a bit simpler. Perhaps it relies on Authentication-Results or somesuch. In any event

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Mark Delany Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:53 PM To: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check Any filter or agent that makes any

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread MH Michael Hammer (5304)
-Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Murray S. Kucherawy Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:55 PM To: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check SNIP There has been

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Hector Santos
MH Michael Hammer (5304) wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim- boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of Murray S. Kucherawy Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:55 PM To: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Rolf E. Sonneveld
] double header reality check SNIP There has been talk of applying DKIM to technologies like Usenet and HTTP output. Packing DKIM with mail-specific verification requirements could prevent such things from happening. Shall we also add a but only when used in the email context clause? Seeing

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/20/2010 01:31 PM, Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: On 10/20/10 9:30 PM, MH Michael Hammer (5304) wrote: Seeing as the M in DKIM stands for Mail, we don't have to put a but only when used in the email context clause. If a DKIM like approach is used for other protocols then we might reasonably

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Douglas Otis
On 10/20/10 10:55 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: I think a lot of this discussion conflates protocol specification with implementation. I'm focused on the former. I maintain that including wording intimating that a DKIM implementation is non-compliant if it fails to do mail format

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Douglas Otis
On 10/20/10 3:19 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: [] I totally agree that that's an important distinction to make, document, highlight and shout from the rooftops. But... Does it *have* to use RFC2119 normative language? Here's maybe a better way to frame the question: Should we empower

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: Validating mail syntax belongs in the specification for the mail components and DKIM work belongs in the DKIM components. That's why, layer violation or no, I think it's important to distinguish between format errors that are likely

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread John R. Levine
Here's maybe a better way to frame the question: Should we empower ourselves to label a DKIM implementation that doesn't do format enforcement as (a) non-compliant, or (b) low-security/low-quality? The latter. Hey, we agree. I think I always said SHOULD rather than MUST. The DKIM spec is

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/20/2010 04:36 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: Validating mail syntax belongs in the specification for the mail components and DKIM work belongs in the DKIM components. That's why, layer violation or no, I think it's important to

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: On 10/20/2010 04:36 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: Validating mail syntax belongs in the specification for the mail components and DKIM work belongs in the DKIM components. That's why, layer violation or

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 20, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: On 10/20/2010 04:36 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: Validating mail syntax belongs in the specification for the mail components and DKIM work

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-20 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: John R. Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:08 PM To: Murray S. Kucherawy Cc: ietf-dkim@mipassoc.org Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check Here's maybe a better way to frame the question: Should we empower

[ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-19 Thread John R. Levine
So it establishes a false sense of resolving a security issue. Hmmn. I could reiterate for a fourth time why the double header thing is only a security issue in the context of DKIM, but there's clearly something else going on that prevents people from getting it. Here's a question: in the

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-19 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org [mailto:ietf-dkim-boun...@mipassoc.org] On Behalf Of John R. Levine Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:47 PM To: DKIM List Subject: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check So it establishes a false sense of resolving

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-19 Thread Hector Santos
] On Behalf Of John R. Levine Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:47 PM To: DKIM List Subject: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check So it establishes a false sense of resolving a security issue. Hmmn. I could reiterate for a fourth time why the double header thing is only a security issue

Re: [ietf-dkim] double header reality check

2010-10-19 Thread Hector Santos
Mark Delany wrote: Only once tools and UAs take advantage of DKIM, do these attacks become relevant. That's why I think this is a DKIM problem. We are wanting tools and UAs to take advantage of DKIM but by doing so they are possibly making themselves more vulnerable to attackers. +1 And