Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large open-source lists

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You really need to use <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags - my first reaction was a knee-jerk "says who?"

Miles

l.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
But DMARC is email authentication best practice.

Sure, some legacy email things are having some minor teething problems with it,
but it's clearly the way to go. Because it introduces authentication.

Now all the spammers will have to open their free yahoo accounts first, before
sending email! That's a great step forwards!

Security! Best practice!

Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood
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From: ietf [ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John R Levine [johnl@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 April 2014 04:28
To: Dave Crocker; IETF general list
Subject: Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large open-source lists

Yes, that's the 1980s percent hack.
intended recipient.  While a bit inefficient -- and probably will emerge as
an attack vector (sigh) -- it's a plausible mechanism.
Right -- something is seriously wrong with DMARC as used if we need to
invent new phish syntaxes to work around it.

R's,
John


--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra





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