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SV: ip6 mechanism + signing messages

2004-03-03 01:23:31
On another note, to extend SPF wouldn't it be
a good feature to add something like:
example.com IN TXT "v=spf1 sig:sigserver.example.net"

The 'sigserver.example.net' box could then run
a whois like directory which contains PGP (or other)
signature methods just like the current pgp keyservers.

SPF was not designed to be used on the e-mail after receiving the e-mail
body - but the idea of letting the DNS system point at a PGP keyserver
is very good.

Unfortunately, I think that some people might get a bit confused about
the SPF concept if PGP/GnuPG is getting involved with SPF now. SPF
deployment isn't that big, yet, and introducing PGP/GnuPG will introduce
a lot of explaining and many existing SPF explanations and arguments
will have to be modified (like the one that e-mails get rejected before
receiving the message body).

Maybe another kind of TXT record would be the right way to do it?

Lars Dybdahl.


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