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Re: [yam] Russ Housley's Discuss on draft-ietf-yam-rfc4409bis-02: (with DISCUSS)

Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> Wed, 24 August 2011 19:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [yam] Russ Housley's Discuss on draft-ietf-yam-rfc4409bis-02: (with DISCUSS)
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Were other comments getting fixed and therefore a new draft will be 
produced (today preferably) that will address this DISCUSS, or is this 
the only thing and I should put in an RFC Editor note?

pr

On 8/24/11 1:46 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Russ,
> At 07:06 24-08-2011, Russ Housley wrote:
>> As Dave well knows, the presence of an invalid signature is different 
>> than no signature at all.  The technical community keeps telling 
>> implementors that they are not really different, but folks that writ 
>> code seem to think otherwise.  The proposed text does not say 
>> anything about the signature validity,  At a minimum, is should say 
>> "...of a valid signature."
>
> Dave suggested the following (new) text as a replacement:
>
>   "Message modification can affect the validity of an existing message
>    signature, such as by DKIM [DKIM], PGP [RFC4880], and can render the
>    signature invalid.  This, in turn, can affect message handling by 
> later
>    receivers, such as filtering engines that consider the presence or 
> absence
>    of a valid signature."
>
> The only change from the previous text is the last line.
>
> The only comment received from the YAM WG has been from Dave.  Based 
> on both comments, I think we have replacement text that all parties 
> can live with.  I'll consider this DISCUSS as addressed.
>
> Thanks,
> S. Moonesamy

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