[dkim-ops] Bogus DKIM signatures?

SM sm at resistor.net
Tue Jun 2 22:56:17 PDT 2009


Hi Jim,
At 21:12 02-06-2009, Jim Fenton wrote:
>I heard two reports today of DKIM-signed spam being received by GMail
>users, and got a sample from one of them.  The message, from an IP
>address in Romania, had an obviously-doctored DKIM signature.  They took
>a yahoo.com signature from late April and changed the d= to mahoo.dom .
>Same with the DK signature.

I have seen cases where people take a DKIM signature, change some of 
the contents and add the modified DKIM signature to another 
message.  I forgot whether that also happened for DK signatures.

>Anyone else seeing anything like this?  I'm wondering why they think
>this might be a useful thing to do.

Because Gmail accepts your message if it contains a DKIM header. 
:-)  That's what some people seem to think anyway.

Regards,
-sm 



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