Domain Keys Identified Mail BOF (dkim)

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DESCRIPTION:

Forgery of headers that indicate message origin is a problem for users of
Internet mail. The DKIM working group will produce specifications that
permit authentication of message headers during transit, using public-key
signatures and based on domain name identifiers. Keys will be stored in
the responsible identity's DNS hierarchy. The specifications will describe
threats of concern and any limitations in the signature security that is
provided. The specification will be based on the <draft-*-dkim-*.txt> draft
documents and will make only the minimal changes deemed essential to the
viability of the service. The specifications will contain summaries of
threats and requirements that are handled by the specified mechanism. The 
DKIM working group will also address mechanisms for advertising "signing 
policy" so that a recipient can determine whether a valid message signature 
should be present.

The working group will NOT consider related topics, such as reputation and
accreditation systems, and message encryption. It will also NOT
consider signatures which are intended to make long-term assertions
(beyond the expected transit time of a message) nor signatures which
attempt to make strong assertions of the identity of the message
author.

The working may also study whether to adopt a work item for specifying a
common mechanism to communicate the results of message verification to the
message recipient.

MAILING LISTS: ietf-mailsig@imc.org