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Re: [ietf-dkim] [dkim] #10: Error in Appendix C. Creating a Public Key

2011-04-14 20:03:51
I was going to raise the same issues, including maybe suggesting to 
thrown in a Microsoft "how to" generate keys to complete the picture. 
  But I didn't think you wanted to go there or get into the zone 
format (Bind vs Microsoft?), or even suggest to take it out and make 
it more general - "Create a subdomain using the format described in 
section x.y."

If anything, I like the idea to help Windows people how they can 
create keys using OS cert tools, which I am not sure off hand if its 
part of the OS or comes with installation of SDKs.

I would probably throw in some text about the domains that need to do 
this via their ISP - "add this subdomain and TXT line using your ISP 
DNS Manager setup"

Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
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Subject: [dkim] #10: Error in Appendix C. Creating a Public Key

#10: Error in Appendix C. Creating a Public Key

 http://mipassoc.org/pipermail/ietf-dkim/2011q2/015812.html

 For appendix C, I believe the example for the public key DNS record is
 missing the complete subdomain. It has brisbane where it should be
 brisbane._domainkey

 Text change to consider:

    This public-key data (without the BEGIN and END tags) is placed in
    the DNS as a TXT record subdomain using the selector (i.e. brisbane)
    plus "._domainkey" like so:

    brisbane._domainkey IN  TXT  ("v=DKIM1; p=".....")

I don't think this clarifies anything in particular.  If the zone file is for 
a domain itself, this makes sense, but the text as-is is just fine if the 
zone file is for _domainkey.<domain>.  I've seen it done (and have done it) 
using both designs, so both are equally correct.


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