Invalid DKIM signatures in this list

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Tue Nov 27 15:51:29 UTC 2018


James B. Byrne wrote:
>
>
>On Mon, November 26, 2018 22:31, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>> John R. Levine wrote:
>>>> The problem is: The signature was not broken until FreeBSD's list
>>>> manager
>>>> touched the body.
>>>
>>>Yes, we all know that.  We knew that a decade ago when we wrote the
>>> DKIM specs.  That is not news.
>>
>> Do you mean nobody cares? RFC6377 is dated September 2011, for all
>> these years nobody has tried to do something about FreeBSD's MLM
>> breaking
>> signatures?
>>
>> OK, fine.
>>
>
>A lot of people cared.  You can visit the IETF mailing list and read
>through the reams of discussion regarding the negative impact that
>DKIM would have on mailing lists.

And SPF had a negative impact on mail forwarding. And the eradication 
of open relays had a negative impact on postmasters' comradery. 
That's a price we sometimes pay.

However, RFC6377 was written in 2011 and has some very reasonable 
points. Why did nobody care to implement them?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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