On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 9:04 AM Dave Crocker <d...@dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 11/6/2024 6:54 PM, Wei Chuang wrote:
> > signed recipient
>
> Small request for clarification:
>
> I'm not familiar with this term.  And the 'strong protections' paper you
> cite does not seem to use it.
>
> Since recipients don't do the signing, it is not safely intuitive to
> guess what the term means.
>

I suspect it's a reference to the fact that DKIM2 includes a single
envelope recipient in the data fed to the hash which is then encrypted to
yield the signature, so the same signature can't be replayed to a different
recipient.  So in that sense the recipient is "signed".

-MSK
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