Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Al Iverson via mailop said: >If you've got any evidence of x= in the wild that you care to share, >thank you kindly in advance! I've been collecting the DKIM signatures of mail that lands in my personal mailboxes. Since May there are 19,000 signed messages of which about 5000 hav

Re: [mailop] SPF alignment when sending from G Suite

2024-10-10 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Dave Crocker via mailop said: > >On 10/9/2024 11:57 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas via mailop wrote: >> checking SPF is a fallback mechanism. > >SPF is a fairly complex, fragile tool and it makes DMARC.. It's >inclusion in DMARC is always justified with language such as you used, >b

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Mark Delany via mailop
On 10Oct24, Al Iverson via mailop apparently wrote: > > > If you've got any evidence of x= in the wild that you care to share, > > > thank you kindly in advance! I'd be curious as to evidence of systems which actually re-categorise email based on x=. And how often such recategorisations are real

Re: [mailop] SPF alignment when sending from G Suite

2024-10-10 Thread Scott Q. via mailop
Hi John, if you don't mind me asking, when you say: > which makes it easy for any of their customers to SPF spoof any other customer. you mean the header or the envelope from ? Afaik, the envelope from is (should be!) tied to the authenticated user Scott On Friday, 11/10/2024 at 00:21 John Lev

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Ralph Seichter via mailop
* Dave Crocker: > Longer-term use has, at least, operational import, for access to the > DKIM key and for access to the message in its signed form. Neither of > these is automatically cheap, given operational vagaries and given the > manipulations many email systems do to the messages they handle.

Re: [mailop] SPF alignment when sending from G Suite

2024-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/9/2024 11:57 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas via mailop wrote: checking SPF is a fallback mechanism. SPF is a fairly complex, fragile tool and it makes DMARC.. It's inclusion in DMARC is always justified with language such as you used, but I've never seen any data offered about just how us

Re: [mailop] SPF alignment when sending from G Suite

2024-10-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas via mailop
On 09.10.24 21:59, Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: Since the primary function of the SMTP Mail From command is to specify an address for receiving email handling problem notices, alignment with the rfc5322.From field domain would seem to be secondary, at best. On 10.10.24 08:32, Thomas Walter vi

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread A. Schulze via mailop
Al Iverson via mailop: I love the idea of the X tag with DKIM to set an expiration date after which the signature should no longer be considered valid. (As described here, and many other places: https://xnnd.com/dqio ). But who actually has implemented this, if anyone? Are you aware of any ISPs

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Wed, 9 Oct 2024, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: I love the idea of the X tag with DKIM to set an expiration date after which the signature should no longer be considered valid. (As described here, and many other places: https://xnnd.com/dqio ). But who actually has implemented this, if anyone?

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/10/2024 3:42 AM, Ralph Seichter via mailop wrote: I love the idea of the X tag with DKIM to set an expiration date after which the signature should no longer be considered valid. Why is that, I wonder? A digital signature does not age, after all. Either a signature matches the signed paylo

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
> If you've got any evidence of x= in the wild that you care to share, > thank you kindly in advance! DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=customer.domain; s=k3; t=1728563812; x=1728824312; i=news@customer.domain; bh=x; h=Subject:From:Reply-To:To:Date:Mes

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Ralph Seichter via mailop
* Al Iverson via mailop: > I love the idea of the X tag with DKIM to set an expiration date after > which the signature should no longer be considered valid. Why is that, I wonder? A digital signature does not age, after all. Either a signature matches the signed payload or it does not; there is

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
Thanks, all. My answer to the question of why: To make it slightly harder for bad guys to pick up and DKIM replay older messages. Putting a timer on that signature is like leaving the milk out of the fridge after opening it. Cheers, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson // 312-725-0130 // Chicago http://

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/10/2024 9:07 AM, Ralph Seichter via mailop wrote: You call that attacking? 😂 Damn, but you're acting insecure. Also, keep your ad hominem approach to yourself, I am not interested. I just love how bullies respond to push-back.  So interesting to see the projections and contradictions the

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Thu 10/Oct/2024 14:42:43 +0200 Atro Tossavainen via mailop wrote: If you've got any evidence of x= in the wild that you care to share, thank you kindly in advance! DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=customer.domain; s=k3; t=1728563812; x=1728824312; i=news@custo

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 12:48 PM Mark E. Mallett via mailop wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 05:47:43PM -0500, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > > I love the idea of the X tag with DKIM to set an expiration date after > > which the signature should no longer be considered valid. (As > > described h

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Mark E. Mallett via mailop
On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 05:47:43PM -0500, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > I love the idea of the X tag with DKIM to set an expiration date after > which the signature should no longer be considered valid. (As > described here, and many other places: https://xnnd.com/dqio ). But > who actually has im

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Atro Tossavainen via mailop
I ran a check across our spamtraps. Approximately 4% of the messages we received yesterday had the x= field. Senders that included it were Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, Mailchimp, Mailgun, Splio, dotdigital, HubSpot, Mailjet, Selligent, Campaigner, GetResponse, Salesmanago, TurboSMTP, Postmark, Aweber

[mailop] R: DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Alberto Domenico Miscia via mailop
We, and a few other ESPs, implemented the x= tag originally for the purpose of reducing the window of opportunity for DKIM replay attacks. Yes I know It's a controversial topic, enforcement is optional and the RFC states it is not intended for that purpose but, in a layered approach against mess

Re: [mailop] R: DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/10/2024 8:17 AM, Alberto Domenico Miscia via mailop wrote: in a layered approach against messaging abuse, I think everything plays its part. In psychology, avoidance training is especially 'sticky' because the subject does not test whether the thing that is (now) being avoided is stil

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Ralph Seichter via mailop
* Dave Crocker: > How delightful. Attacking with creation of a post-hoc requirement. You call that attacking? :-D Damn, but you're acting insecure. Also, keep your ad hominem approach to yourself, I am not interested. -Ralph ___ mailop mailing list mai

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Ralph Seichter via mailop
* Al Iverson via mailop: > My answer to the question of why: To make it slightly harder for bad > guys to pick up and DKIM replay older messages. The problem I see with trusting the x-tag is that one cannot be sure if the functionality is implemented, or if the tag is "honored" by third parties.

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/10/2024 8:05 AM, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: My answer to the question of why: To make it slightly harder for bad guys to pick up and DKIM replay older messages. My understanding is that the observed DKIM replay attacks have done the replay very quickly -- maybe instantly -- upon origi

Re: [mailop] DKIM: Who's using the x tag?

2024-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/10/2024 6:19 AM, Ralph Seichter via mailop wrote: * Dave Crocker: Longer-term use has, at least, operational import, for access to the DKIM key and for access to the message in its signed form. Neither of these is automatically cheap, given operational vagaries and given the manipulations

Re: [mailop] SPF alignment when sending from G Suite

2024-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker via mailop
On 10/9/2024 11:32 PM, Thomas Walter via mailop wrote: On 09.10.24 21:59, Dave Crocker via mailop wrote: Since the primary function of the SMTP Mail From command is to specify an address for receiving email handling problem notices, alignment with the rfc5322.From field domain would seem to be s

Re: [mailop] [FIXED] beware of Abusix Auth0 migration MFA snafu

2024-10-10 Thread Kirill Miazine via mailop
• Kirill Miazine via mailop [2024-10-08 00:53]: Apparently Abusix migrated user authentication system to Auth0. As part of the migration, they nuked MFA backup codes, and request that user disables and re-enables MFA to get new backup codes. Now, that flow does not work, at least not for me -