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[dkim-ops] DKIM key length criticism

2010-06-20 21:43:27
I noticed a blog post critical of Facebook for only using a 512-bit key 
in their DKIM signatures:

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/facebooks-dkim-rsa-key-should-be.html

His analysis looks correct, except that he doesn't consider the 
possibility that they might rotate their keys periodically (although, as 
far as I can tell, they haven't yet).

Of course, there's a follow-on blog post that confuses the issue further:

http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/facebook-insecure-dkim-encryption-mail.html

by suggesting that DKIM does encryption.

I'm in the process of collecting a bunch of DKIM selector data to see 
what the distribution of key lengths looks like.  But I'm hard pressed 
to criticize a domain for using a key that's marginally too short when 
there are so many other domains that aren't signing at all.

Any thoughts?

-Jim
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