Re: Why SRS really sucks

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Tom Lahti wrote:

> >badly with greylisters.  But ultimately, I can configure my SRS
> >to use any prefix I want to get around people mistaking my
> >signatures for SRS forwards.  I can also change the char set
> >and delimiters used to get around the '+' idiots.
> 
> I'm envisioning taking the entire SRS local part and 
> encrypting/encoding it into a stream of letters/numbers that are all 
> legal address characters.  They would then be indistinguishable from, 
> say, an actual username made up of seemingly random letters and 
> numbers.  Indistinguishable, that is, by any MTA exception my own :)

That is what SES did.  But then they made the timestamp too precise to
work with greylisters.  That could be a good extension for SRS
in sign mode, though.  I could use resuse the bitpacket code from SES.

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