Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Hi Stephen,

Stephen Kent wrote:
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> The security considerations section consists of only one sentence: 
> "This RFC does not discuss security issues and is not believed to 
> raise any security issues not already endemic in electronic mail and 
> present in fully conforming implementations of [RFC5321]." RFC 5321 
> (the updated SMTP spec) has an extensive security considerations 
> section, so this is a reasonable reference. I could imagine security 
> issues that might be associated with this document vs. 5321, since the 
> security section of the latter document does not address any security 
> concerns related to transfer of 8-bit data. For example, the handshake 
> used to determine whether an SMTP sever support receipt/relay of 8-bit 
> data might be used to target servers based on the lack of such support.

Can you elaborate of your concern hear?
If you can suggest some text, that would be perfect.

> One might even cite the use of this transport capability as 
> facilitating malware transmission in e-mail attachments.

Does it?