[ietf-dkim] Output summary

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Fri Apr 29 06:04:50 PDT 2011


On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:52:19 +0100, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> Last paragraph of sec 5.2: " Verifiers SHOULD ignore failed signatures as
> though they were not present in the message."

Actually, that does not seem quite right. It is assessors who should do  
that. Verifiers are explicitly asked to report "PERMFAIL" in that case,  
which is not quite the same thing as "ignoring".

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