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Re: [ietf-smtp] Public Key Look Up

2021-05-12 13:45:13
On 5/12/2021 9:57 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:

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.)

DKIM doesn't use encryption, but it does do signing, which is a crypto function.

More simply: the thing that is published in a DKIM record is a public key.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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