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Re: [ietf-smtp] Public Key Look Up

2021-05-12 11:57:51
On Wed 12/May/2021 18:46:08 +0200 Dave Crocker wrote:
On 5/12/2021 9:31 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
Right.  Your MX publishes a public key to which it has the corresponding
private key.


It doesn't have to.  The mail-based update protocol for wkd[*], for example, is 
designed to keep the secret key secret.


This is well understood technology - see any company that intercepts
https:// and re-encrypts the user-side traffic using their own keys.>
or DKIM.


Neither case provides for end-to-end crypto.  (Hm... possibly except DKIM for 
postmaster to postmaster communication, deploying the binary key as OpenGPG.  
Not an alluring technique.)


Best
Ale
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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service#section-4













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