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

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Mon, 08 March 2010 19:59 UTC

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

1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/yam/current/msg00366.html