Re: Sniffing and HTTP-bis (ACTION-309)

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Julian Reschke writes:

> As far as I understand that algorithm, it will sometimes apply
> sniffing to content labeled text/plain, overriding it, for instance,
> as "text/html". Isn't that a significant change of the security
> exposure???

My memory is that at the TAG f2f in September we worked through [1]
carefully and concluded that it worked very hard at and did indeed
succeed in ruling _out_ exactly that kind of privilege escalation, but
I will now go back and take another look.

ht

[1] http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-abarth-mime-sniff/
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