[ietf-dkim] DKIM Japan has been set up

Scott Kitterman ietf-dkim at kitterman.com
Mon Nov 22 14:23:47 PST 2010


On Monday, November 22, 2010 01:37:13 pm Dave CROCKER wrote:
> On 11/21/2010 6:43 PM, Tsuneki Ohnishi wrote:
> > But there is a small problem. It is rather polical.
> > We have a telecommunication law that allows ISPs to discard
> > forged email, but our Ministry so far does not acknowledge
> > that failure of DKIM verification immediately equals to
> > forgery, because there could be other reasons to fail.
> 
> There are technical and operational reasons that can cause legitimate mail
> that was originally signed with a legitimate DKIM signature, to fail to
> verify.
> 
> The fact that a signer signs all their mail does not mean that all their
> mail will arrive with a valid signature.
> 
> Simply publishing an ADSP record does not change this fact.  ADSP can
> perhaps be used productively for specific signers and verifiers, but it
> does not work for all legitimate scenarios.
> 
What does work for all legitimate scenarios?

Scott K


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