[dkim-dev] verification failed problems

Michael Thomas mat at cisco.com
Wed Jun 13 18:04:20 PDT 2007


Likewise, my reflector dkim-test at mtcc.com sends the canonicalized output
in the message back from the reflector itself.

       Mike

Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Eric Allman wrote:
>> Ah.  I think the problem is that you need to append the \r\n on b= 
>> before you sign.  You're adding it after signing.
>
> Actually the CRLF should not be there when you feed the header to 
> canonicalization (RFC4871 3.7).  Therefore the algorithm you presented 
> appears to be correct, but that's not code or actual data so it's hard 
> to say what's actually gone wrong.
>
> If you send a test message to sa-test at sendmail.net and have a DK-style 
> policy published with a special flag set, our auto-responder will 
> reply to you with the canonicalizations it generated when receiving 
> your message. When you get those back, you can diff what we saw 
> against what you sent and figure out what's gone wrong.
>
> The special flag is "r=", e.g.:
>
>     t=y; o=~; r=user at domain
>
> ...will cause a failure report to be sent to "user at domain".
>
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