Re: [Asrg] Iteration #3.

Dave CROCKER <dhc@dcrocker.net> Sun, 07 February 2010 20:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Iteration #3.
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On 2/7/2010 11:50 AM, John Levine wrote:
> Since the reports all contain a message that was supposed to be
> delivered by the system to which it was returned, a straightforward
> way to recognize real reports would be to check the enclosed message
> to see if it looked like something it had delivered.  That seems much
> more robust against both malicious forgery, and plain old mistakes
> where an MUA picks up mail from two different places and sends the
> report to the wrong one.


encoding per-channel information in a per-message package is a mismatch that 
could be problematic.

most seriously is the possibility of trust boundary issues that has already been 
raised.  i had a further thought on that issue, which is about unintentional 
disclosure through forwarding.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
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