[ietf-dkim] Base-02 //Deprecated Signature Version & New List

[Stephen Farrell]

Douglas Otis wrote:
> 
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Eric Allman wrote:
> 
>> There are many reasons I don't like this proposal.  Let me start with 
>> the easily fixed ones:
>>
>> (1) Overloading existing tags to add new functionality is absurd. 
>> Adding "d" to the end of the version has nothing to do with the 
>> version; 

Eric's right there IMO.

 >> (3) Wasn't the issue of downgrade attacks discussed in Dallas and
 >> resolved on the list?  In specific, it was issue 1196 (Upgrade
 >> indication and protection against downgrade attacks).  As near as
 >> I can tell, the exact same issues that Doug is raising were discussed
 >> in this issue, and a frankly much more elegant approach was proposed.
 >> Why is this issue alive again?
 >
 > This issue still needs review.

We have consensus that 1196 [1] is closed. One voice doesn't change
that.

Stephen.

[1] https://rt.psg.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=1196