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Re: [marf] I-D Action: draft-ietf-marf-as-07.txt

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <shmuel+mail-abuse-feedback-report@patriot.net> Sun, 12 February 2012 00:39 UTC

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<F5833273385BB34F99288B3648C4F06F19C9A7DCE9@EXCH-C2.corp.cloudmark.com>,
on 02/10/2012
   at 09:21 AM, "Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> said:

>S/MIME and PGP also allow you to sign the From: field of a message,
>but they make no statement about whether what got signed is true or
>not.

By "authenticate" and "sign" I was refering to authentication of
permission, not to authenticating that the message had not been
altered.

>I can't conceive of an Internet-based technology that can confirm
>intent or legitimacy of the signer/author/whatever.

How about a public key in a TXT RR?

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