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

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Wed, 10 March 2010 15:53 UTC

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:44:38 -0500
To: S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>
From: Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>
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Subject: Re: [yam] [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03
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At 11:49 AM -0800 3/8/10, S Moonesamy wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>The YAM WG discussed about the issues raised during the Sec-dir 
>review of draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03 [1] and concluded that:
>
>   (i) The presence of an option negotiation mechanism is not believed to
>       facilitate attacks or raise any security issues not already endemic
>       in electronic mail and present in fully conforming implementations
>       of RFC 5321.
>
>  (ii) Since MIME semantics are transport neutral the 8bitMIME option
>       provides no added capability to disseminate malware than is
>       provided by unextended 7bit SMTP.
>
>Regards,
>S. Moonesamy
>

Thanks for the reply.

Steve