[ietf-dkim] list expanders (was Re: chained signatures, was l= summary)

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Fri Jun 12 04:47:35 PDT 2009


On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:34:19 +0100, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:

> J.D. Falk wrote:
>> Michael Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> There is *NO* *REASON* to strip signatures. NONE.
>>>
>>> In fact it is HARMFUL.
>>

> Well for starters, RFC4871 section 3.5:
>

> And from RFC2822 section 3.6:
>

> And then RFC4871 section 4.2 goes on to say:

In general +1 to all that, though I am not as passionate as Michael, and  
can accept that hopelessly broken signatures _might_ occasionally be  
removed.

But by and large, I do not want to prevent Forensics.

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