Re: antiphishing idea

Michael Thomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/17/2011 02:19 PM, Christian Grunfeld wrote:
> 2011/11/17 John Levine<[email protected]>:
>    
>>> Domains should have to publish in their DNSs the message-id (among any
>>> other thing) through a TXT or A record of any legit mail sent by them.
>>> The TTLs of those records can be adjusted to compensate for queued
>>> mails, etc.
>>>        
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you want to do this rather
>> than a DKIM signature?  DKIM validates against the DNS, and protects
>> the whole message.
>>      
> because I can have a proper configured domain, I can properly sign my
> mails but I can send you an email with From: paypal.com header !
> DKIM does not protect you against this ! DKIM says that evil.com signs
> correctly the email and no alarms will trigger. The average user only
> see and "trust" the From: paypal.com mail header !
>    

Ask google if an improperly dkim-signed paypal.com mail sets off
alarms. I'll help you out: it does.

Mike
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