Re: RFC 2487 [5]: Suggest dropping of "TLS Required"- forbid and extensions of current standards

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Keith Moore wrote:
>> I agree that getting authentication into the email protocols is a good
>> thing, but TLS does not achieve much more than SPF/Sender-ID in that
>> respect. DKIM is a much better platform.
> 
> 
> Not clear.  As currently envisioned, DKIM doesn't address phishing
> because it basically says "I saw this message" rather than "I wrote this
> message".  It doesn't authenticate transmission either because it
> doesn't record to whom the message was transmitted.  So it addresses the
> spam problem only if you're willing to take a rather large leap of faith
> in reputation services that have no reliable basis with which to
> determine a domain's reputation, and a few other leaps of faith besides.

i see...

> 
> I think DKIM is fixable, but if it stays in its current form it will
> only delay adoption of effective anti-phishing and anti-spam solutions
> by a few more years.  And several people in that proto-WG seem to think
> that getting agreement on something that people have blind faith in is
> more important than actually understanding whether and how it will solve
> any real problems.

hard words...

so lets use state of the art, and thats tls for now.

> 
> Keith
> 
> 

tom

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