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Re: Fwd: Re: [ietf-dkim] Introducing myself

2006-12-07 03:20:00
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:58:41 -0000, Stephen Farrell <stephen(_dot_)farrell(_at_)cs(_dot_)tcd(_dot_)ie> wrote:

So it looks to me like you're suggesting a new c14n algorithm for
the WG to consider.

If so, I think the proper course would be to write that up as a
draft-lindsey-dkim-foo and then we can see if we like it or not.
(While having the perl code is great, its not necessarily the
easiest thing for everyone to analyse.)

Yes, I might do that in due course, but we need to toss the idea around here a little bit more first (as we seem to be doing).

And we do have pluggability in base for c14n, so that if you're
right, and this new c14n produces significantly less brittle
signatures, then your new c14n algorithm would probably get
adopted fairly quickly in any case.

My concern is that people will tend not to implement stuff that is not in the base standard. And any c14n has to be implemented at both ends in order to be of any use.

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