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