[ietf-dkim] one more comment I forgot...

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Wed Jan 11 11:19:25 PST 2006


Stephen Farrell wrote:

>
> Yes, but mucking up a signature is already covered in the
> draft whereas totally ditching one isn't.
>
> (Perhaps "forwarder" wasn't the right term - if not, mea
> culpa.)

 From a threat perspective, the two are identical, right? If a
receiver in any way treats broken signatures different than
missing signatures, an attacker can exploit the preferable
treatment trivially.

       Mike


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