Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-dkim-base)

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Eric Allman wrote:
> 
> --On November 8, 2006 12:05:07 AM +0200 Pekka Savola
> <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> ==> what is the expected verifier's behaviour if one or more of
>> these MUST/MUST NOTs doesn't hold?  AFAICS, that hasn't been
>> specified, at least not very clearly.  Should it be?
> 
> This is already covered in (e.g.) 6.1.1:
> 
>        Implementers MUST meticulously validate the format and values
>        in the DKIM-Signature header field; any inconsistency or
>        unexpected values MUST cause the header field to be
>        completely ignored and the verifier to return PERMFAIL
>        (signature syntax error). Being "liberal in what you accept"
>        is definitely a bad strategy in this security context.

One clarification to this for Pekka, in case he missed it: Section 3.2:
Unrecognized tags MUST be ignored.

	Tony Hansen
	tony@xxxxxxx

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