Additional lookups (was Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: 1368 straw-poll)

[Jeff Macdonald]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:44:21AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> On a friendly internet with only cooperating parties, this might
> make sense.  But the world has changed. With today's internet it
> would be a fundamental mistake to make more distinctions than:
> 
>     the signature was verified
>     other
> 
> If the verifier gives different treatments to different types of
> "other", then the bad guys will exploit the verifier's behavior.
> 
> The solution to the problem is not to complicate the protocol, but
> to avoid the mistake of giving different treatments to different
> types of "other".

+1

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