> On 05 May 2016, at 22:04, John R Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> People have beens mailing around vast numbers of DMARC reports, most
>>> of which have an application/gzip body.  If there have been attacks
>>> using DEFLATE bugs, nobody's gotten around to reporting them.
>> 
>> I'm not much worried about attacks on DEFLATE and SMTP traffic. But as I 
>> understand from the draft, there's also an option to report back via HTTPS. 
>> Here DEFLATE may become a security issue.
> 
> I don't see why.  HTTP has had gzip encoding since http/1.0 twenty years ago, 
> but I only defined application/gzip for mail in 2012.  Your browser probably 
> decodes deflated pages dozens of times a day.

Exactly. And this is an open security issue today. It's the reason why people 
needed to come up with 'first party cookies'.

https://github.com/dionyziz/rupture

> Also, remember the DMARC experience, that in practice nobody is interested in 
> http reports if they can send mail.  You might ask around and see if you can 
> find anyone who would send http reports if they had the option to do so. I 
> implemented the http option from the DMARC draft (sort of, given that the 
> draft language was a mess) and the number of attempts I saw was zero.

I think STS is quite different from DMARC if many respects, but I'm interested 
in the authors opinions on that - would they prefer mail delivery or https? 
does it depend on deployment/hosting environment etc.

Aaron

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