[ietf-dkim] The key record upgrade attack

Douglas Otis dotis at mail-abuse.org
Fri Aug 4 09:29:08 PDT 2006


On Aug 4, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> At 8:38 AM -0700 8/4/06, Douglas Otis wrote:
>> During a transition, it would be important to communicate what  
>> will be offered and what has been deprecated.  Then these options  
>> MUST be available or the related signatures MUST be ignored.
>
> The SSP document *cannot* change the way implementers of the -base  
> document process signatures. "MUST be ignored" changes the logic of  
> -base.

Interesting catch.  This point was raised however during base, but  
ignored.

-Doug




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