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Re: [ietf-smtp] broken signatures, was Curious

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Thu, 23 July 2020 02:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] broken signatures, was Curious
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On 7/22/2020 7:05 PM, e sam wrote:
> I'm just talking about if there IS a problem, which I don't know if 
> there is or isn't one..


For an effort of the narrow type intended here, when someone posts about 
a problem, they should include documentation that it is actually a problem.

It's easy to hypothesize about an infinite range of possibilities.  It 
takes work to document the realities.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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