[ietf-dkim] Not exactly not a threat analysis

Earl Hood earl at earlhood.com
Wed Aug 17 11:27:46 PDT 2005


On August 17, 2005 at 11:44, Keith Moore wrote:

> IMHO, these are a useful start, but I think they need work.  For
> example, the MUST NOT prohibition against verifiers using the z= field
> seems a bit overstated.

The z= is not designed well, IMHO.  I'd be concerned about the 998
octet line length limit, and as DKIM defines it now, it has no,
to very little value.

I think saved header fields can have some uses, especially in
validation, but something better than the z= should be devised.

--ewh


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