[ietf-dkim] SSP = FAILURE DETECTION

Wietse Venema wietse at porcupine.org
Sat Sep 9 11:10:39 PDT 2006


Scott Kitterman:
> > Blindly believing DKIM-SSP gives a false sense of security, and
> > provides criminals with even more convincing ways to rob people.
> > I really recommend that you read my entire email message.
> >
> If you had said that Blindly believing [positive indications from] 
> DKIM-SSP ... then I would agree 100%.  I do not think that SSP can help 
> assert anything about the goodness of a message.  I think it's only utility 
> is in finding some that are definitely bad.

Criminals switch strategy, and use look-alike domains to make their
mail look even more authentic than it does today.

If this is how SSP stops phishing mail, we have achieved nothing.

	Wietse


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