Re: [dmarc-ietf] Question regarding RFC 8617

"Kurt Andersen (b)" <kboth@drkurt.com> Thu, 07 November 2019 17:23 UTC

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From: "Kurt Andersen (b)" <kboth@drkurt.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:23:37 -0800
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To: "Weist, Bill" <William.Weist@iqvia.com>
Cc: Brandon Long <blong@google.com>, "dmarc@ietf.org" <dmarc@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Question regarding RFC 8617
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Both of the cases you cited are entirely covered by ARC. If you are seeing
failures, I would be pointing the finger toward said "intermediary SMTP
system" which is modifying the message without properly affixing its own
ARC set.

--Kurt

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 8:45 AM Weist, Bill <William.Weist@iqvia.com> wrote:

> Thank you both for replying.  There are two instances where I have
> identified ARC signatures consistently failing:
>
>
>
> Case 1:  An intermediary SMTP system receives an email on behalf of a
> recipient system whereby the “from” field is required to be changed for the
> email to reply as desired by the recipient system.  (example:
> William.Weist@gmail.com rewritten to William.Weist@iqvia.com)
>
>
>
> Case 2: An Intermediary SMTP system receives an email on behalf of the
> recipient system whereby the “subject” field is required to by changed for
> the email to be categorized as desired by the recipient system. (example:
> “RE: [dmarc-ietf] Question regarding RFC 8617” modified to:  “RFC
> Correspondence: [dmarc-ietf] Question regarding RFC 8617”)
>
>
>
> As Kurt pointed out below, the ARC signature is NOT intended to be
> validated by hops >1 step away.  However, I did not think this was the case
> and that ARC was specifically supposed to validate each custodian where
> DKIM would be broken by the cases listed above.
>
>
>
> As differentiated from DKIM, the RFC reads as if ARC is designed to
> validate the “custodian” and NOT the “sender” therefore, “From” and
> “Subject” would not be as desirable as say “X-Received”,
> “X-Google-Smtp-Source”, and “X-Gm-Message-State” in the case of Brandon’s
> email to which I am replying.
>
>
>
> It is my suggestion that for ARC to be a valuable addition to DKIM, it
> needs to focus on the “custodian” and not the “sender”.
>
>
>
> Thank you both for your time and attention.
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
> *From:* Brandon Long <blong@google.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 6, 2019 12:43 PM
> *To:* Kurt Andersen (b) <kboth@drkurt.com>
> *Cc:* Weist, Bill <William.Weist@iqvia.com>; dmarc@ietf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [dmarc-ietf] Question regarding RFC 8617
>
>
>
> This email originated from outside of the organization.
>
>
>
> What's more, the point of including Subject and other mutable headers is
> the same as it is for DKIM, those are the headers which are important to
> the receiver, so they should be validated.
>
> As Kurt points out, the point of ARC is to acknowledge these changes hop
> to hop, and the Arc Seal proves who did the change, the question becomes do
> you believe
>
> the person who changed it wasn't malicious.
>
>
>
> Brandon
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:37 AM Kurt Andersen (b) <kboth@drkurt.com> wrote:
>
> The choice of which headers are included in the signed set is strictly up
> to the domain administrators who implement the signing practices. Also, the
> AMS is only relevant for the next receiver, it is not intended to be
> validated by hops >1 step away from the domain which adds that instance so
> I don't see how mutability would matter.
>
>
>
> --Kurt Andersen
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:30 AM Weist, Bill <William.Weist@iqvia.com>
> wrote:
>
> DOI:  10.17487/RFC8617
>
>
>
> The inclusion of the address headers in the signature, and possibly the
> Subject, is an issue:
>
>
>
> ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=
> microsoft.com
> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmicrosoft.com&data=02%7C01%7CWilliam.Weist%40iqvia.com%7C3c6685ae55144287801808d762e0daa5%7C5989ece0f90e40bf9c791a7beccdb861%7C1%7C0%7C637086590191460908&sdata=KyZ7aC4X35IcojTOEbgeDFXnOPPSHvlt8RaqH8VtXpA%3D&reserved=0>;
> s=arcselector9901; h=From:Date:Subject:Message-ID:Content-Type:MIME-Version:X-MS-Exchange-SenderADCheck;
> bh=;
>
>
>
> If a downstream server needs to modify either of these two values, the
> signature check fails.
>
>
>
> It is my understanding that the Authenticated Received Check signature is
> to validate the chain of possession.  As such, in my opinion, the signature
> should only include immutable references.
>
>
>
> In my opinion, there is value in NOT requiring headers to be stripped by
> downstream servers, thus maintaining the custody chain from origination to
> destination.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your time and attention,
>
>
>
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