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Re: [ietf-dkim] LWSP in base64-encoded public key TXT RR

2007-03-08 10:30:23
Mark Martinec wrote:
I came across a real life example where a public key as returned
by a DNS record contained embedded CR LF, probably due to a
misconfiguration or a broken DNS server implementation.

I think the key phrase here is "probably due to a misconfiguration or a broken DNS server implementation." While it doesn't seem that there's a good reason to require SP after CRLF in the key record, I also can't think of a good reason why the DNS server needs to split it in the first place. If this behavior had been a characteristic of a common DNS server implementation, I think we would have seen it before now.

I don't think a change to the spec is required just because there's a name server that 's broken, misconfigured, or otherwise did something unexpected.

-Jim
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