Re: To all who wish to unsubscribe

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: To all who wish to unsubscribe
Date: 2017-11-21 18:39:13
Message-ID: 20171121183913.iway4wzynzn2q7k4@crankycanuck.ca
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 02:46:08PM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote:
> That's poor practice, for several reasons - replay attacks with added content
> and it being an extremely rare practice that's likely to trigger bugs in DKIM
> validation are two. The latter is the much bigger deal.
>
> It also doesn't help much for most MIME encoded mail (including base64
> encoded plain text, like the mail I'm replying to).
>
> Pretending those paragraphs aren't there is the right thing to do.

Yes. Also the DMARC and forthcoming ARC mechanisms -- super important
for people behind gmail and yahoo and so on -- make that feature not
really work, AFAICT. I think that part of DKIM is busted, and the
authors of it I've talked to seem to agree.

A

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