Re: OT: Delirium...

[Gene Heskett <ge...@verizon.net>]

On Monday 03 April 2006 14:16, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>Well, I was off on Vancouver Island for nearly a week, and didn't take
> a laptop with me...  Clearly it caused some major trauma because I
> had the following hallucinatory idea:
>
>I was thinking about the issue in which sending spam isn't a crime in
> a lot of countries, or if it is that it's poorly enforced.
>
>Then I thought of SPF, Domain-Keys, and ways to enforce authenticity
>using existing laws...
>
>And came up with this idea.
>
>What if we had a TXT Record in the DNS for a domain that looked like:
>
>@            IN TXT       "XYZZY 123 456  (C) Copyright 2006 Redfish
>Solutions, LLC"
>
>And then had hosts participating in this scheme generate outgoing mail
> as:
>
>X-Yes-Its-Really-Me: XYZZY 123 456 (C) Copyright 2006 Redfish
> Solutions, LLC"
>
>and uses the presence of this copywritten key to match the appropriate
>string
>in the DNS as proof that the sender is who he says he is.
>
>Then if the scheme were widely adopted (we could have an applet or
> script that generated a random string and primed the DNS with it or
> could be easily cut-n-pasted into the DNS configuration... the MTA
> could of course extract the string easily, as could anyone else for
> verification), then it would be a
>leverage point if someone started forging emails.
>
>While sending spam might not be a crime in all civilized countries,
>copyright
>infringement is.
>
>Is that too "out there?"
>
>-Philip

No, but I'd expect it would take a netwide RFC to enable it, and of 
course the commercial interests wouldn't touch that idea with a 100 
foot pole..

-- 
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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