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Re: [ietf-dkim] RFC4871bis - whether to drop -- h: Acceptable hash algorithms

2009-06-01 18:52:06
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On May 30, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:

Folks,


In:

  <http://mipassoc.org/pipermail/ietf-dkim/2009q2/011959.html>

Steve Atkins posted a list of suggested DKIM features to drop.

This note is intended to anchor a discussion thread for discusses  
one of those
features, namely:


  TXT RR tags

    h: Acceptable hash algorithms

The spec needs to define the supported set of hash algorithms. There
may be some value in a signer being able to state that they're using
an algorithm that isn't supported, perhaps.

But unless there is a viable attack such that an attacker can craft a
message that validates correctly against the domain owner public key
using a hash supported by the spec (sha1 or sha256), without access  
to
the domain owners private key, then there's no need for this to be in
the TXT record.

I agree that there's no need for that to be in a TXT record.

        Jon



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