[ietf-dkim] A question about DKIM and Phishing

Stefan Görling stefan at gorling.se
Fri Aug 11 06:10:19 PDT 2006


Hi,

I'm doing some research for a paper on SPF, DKIM and other sender 
authentication measurements.

I'm a bit puzzled about a fact on: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys, and would appriceate if someone 
could comment this:

"With DomainKeys, the absence of a verifiable digital signature header 
in an E-mail purporting to be from a domain which has a DomainKeys DNS 
record may indicate that that E-mail is a forgery. Thus, E-mails may be 
divided into three classes:

    * valid DomainKey signature: authentic
    * invalid or missing DomainKey signature for a domain with the DNS
      record: usually forged
    * no DNS record or header: unknown status"

As I have understood it, you can not really find the 
DomainKey-DNS-record unless you know the selector, which you do not 
really unless you have a domainKey signature. Is this correct or have I 
misinterpreted the drafts?

Best Regards,

Stefan Görling






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