Re: SPF I-D for review: draft-schlitt-spf-classic-00.txt

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
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In <[email protected]> Keith Moore <[email protected]> writes:

>> X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by
>> 	smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication
>> Whoopee -- anybody with a working printf can forge such a line,
>> so that doesn't seem to do much.

>Well, duh.  Obviously you need something stronger than a header field
>which doesn't contain any way of verifying what message it was attached
>to.  Take the input message, canonicalize it, hash that, sign the hash,
>put the signature in the header field.  Not rocket science (though the
>canonicalization step is a bit tricky to get right)

Such as:

http://www.imc.org/ietf-usefor/drafts/draft-lindsey-usefor-signed-01.txt

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