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IETF RFC 8617
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The Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) Protocol

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Publisher
IETF
Doc Type
Experimental
Pages
35
Abstract
The Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) protocol provides an authenticated "chain of custody" for a message, allowing each entity that handles the message to see what entities handled it before and what the message's authentication assessment was at each step in the handling. ARC allows Internet Mail Handlers to attach assertions of message authentication assessment to individual messages. As messages traverse ARC-enabled Internet Mail Handlers, additional ARC assertions can be attached to messages to form ordered sets of ARC assertions that represent the authentication assessment at each step of the message-handling paths. ARC-enabled Internet Mail Handlers can process sets of ARC assertions to inform message disposition decisions, identify Internet Mail Handlers that might break existing authentication mechanisms, and convey original authentication assessments across trust boundaries.
Publication Date
2019-07-01
Status Note
Experimental
DOI
10.17487/RFC8617
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8617
Author(s)
Kurt Andersen
Brandon Long
Seth Blank
Murray Kucherawy
Keyword(s)
DKIM, DMARC, Signature, Email, Email Authentication
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  • ▶ IETF RFC 8617 (2019-07-01)
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Bibliographic Reference(s)

  • IETF.draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-multi-03 — ARC-MULTI EXTERNAL
  • IETF.draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-usage-07 — ARC-USAGE EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 7489 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 7960 [Active*]
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