Re: [Extra] [ietf-smtp] Fwd: [Ietf-message-headers] Registration update: Content-MD5

FWIW, +1

    john


--On Saturday, October 20, 2018 14:08 -0700 Ned Freed
<ned.freed@mrochek.com> wrote:

>> (Sorry for cross posting)
> 
>> Is there any interest in deprecating use of Content-MD5 for
>> email?
> 
> Seems like a lot of effort for no real again.
> 
> The few implementations I've seen do interoperate, so AFAIK
> that's not a reason for deprecating it.
> 
> Of course MD5 isn't cryptographically strong, but it's fine
> for a checksum, which is  what RFC 1864 says it is for. (At
> the time the RFC was written I argued for extending its use to
> crypographic applications and in the process moving the
> algorithm from the name to the value to provide for algorithm
> flexibility, but there wasn't sufficient interest.)
> 
> 				Ned
> 
> 
>> Thank you,
>> Alexey
> 
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Ietf-message-headers] Registration update:
>> Content-MD5 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:39:05 +0100
>> From: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
>> To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>,
>> ietf-message-headers@ietf.org
> 
>> Just to be clear, this is just use with HTTP that's being
>> obsoleted?
> 
>> It's also registered as a MIME header.  The reason for
>> obsoleting per RFC7231 appears to be inconsistent HTTP
>> implementations, so I guess that doesn't apply to MIME/email?
> 
>> # g
>> --
> 
>> On 15/10/2018 05:30, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> > As discussed on the HTTP Working Group mailing list [1],
>> > we'd like to update the registry entry for Content-MD5 in
>> > HTTP.
>> > 
>> > Proposed template:
>> > 
>> > Header name: Content-MD5
>> > Protocol: http
>> > Status: obsoleted
>> > Reference: RFC2616 (obsoleted by RFC7231, Appendix B)
>> > 
>> > Cheers,
>> > 
>> > 1.
>> > https://www.w3.org/mid/C94E5914-F5F0-46D0-BABB-D42EE45DF10D
>> > @mnot.net
>> > 
>> > 
>> > --
>> > Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>> > 
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