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The `Date:` field in the headers/metadata is included in the signature.
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DKIM verifies the contents of that field (that somebody didn't alter after signing),
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but not that it's the correct date.
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Since the signing key changed a year later, we know the date was before 2016.
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but not that it's the correct date. Any fraudulent information can be put here.
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But the fraud would have to occur at the time the email was sent. And that time
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would have be before October 2016, when GMail changed their DKIM signing keys.
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Thus, it's effectively timestamped "some time after January 2012 and before October 2016".
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In other words, we know it came from Vadym Pozharskyi, but he couldn't sent it
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around a year later than the authenticated email headers claimed he sent it, like April 2016
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instead of April 2015.
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There are other timestamps in the email headers/metadata, but they aren't
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validated by DKIM, and hence, could be forged.
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