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Subject: Re: [Uta] SMTP Over TLS on Port 26 - Implicit TLS Proposal
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On 1/5/19 10:28 PM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> Requiring TLS is pointless if the MX record is not secure.

I'm inclined to disagree.  -  I see value in requiring TLS via STARTTLS=20
even if the MX record wasn't secured.  -  I say inclined because I can't =

articulate the combinations of unmodified / modified MX record in=20
conjunction with all the other possibilities that connections can be=20
tampered with.  Be it hijacking / route poisoning / simply filtering out =

STARTTLS but not altering anything else.

> That's why MTA-STS needs the https component, to secure the MX record=20
> when DNSSEC is not used to do so.
>=20
> When DNSSEC is used, DANE then is better at securing the connection so =

> MTA-STS is only needed when the server and/or client do not support DAN=
E=20
> for SMTP.

I disagree.

I believe the value of MTA-STS (and HSTS) is the ability to signal that=20
SMTP (HTTP) should -ONLY- be conducted over a secure connection via=20
STARTTLS (TLS).  Meaning that SMTP (HTTP) should fail if there isn't a=20
secure connection.

The signaling of this fact is what makes MTA-STS so valuable to me.  To=20
me, the other aspects of DNSSEC / HTTPS are simply infrastructure=20
necessary to enable delivery of the STS signal.



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Grant. . . .
unix || die


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