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[ietf-dkim] New Issue: threats-01 over prescriptive about key delegation

2006-03-09 08:11:19

4.1.2 says that delegates should generate key pairs and should send
signed public keys to the domain owner. There are a couple of problems
with this, if its really meant seriously.

Firstly, some domains might quite reasonably decide to do key
generation "at home" and e.g. to distribute private keys to delegates
on tamper resistent devices (e.g. USB sticks or whatever), so its
hard to justify the "should".  Same issue shows up with the signed
public keys - signed by whom, verified how, etc. are all questions
that would need to be answered before such a "should" (even lower
case) would be appropriate.

Second issue is that this document isn't the right one to specify
such solutions.

However, there's an easy fix: s/should/could/ twice and
s/minimize/reduce/ makes it all ok IMO.

Stephen.

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