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Re: [dane] email canonicalization for SMIMEA owner names

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 13 December 2014 18:17 UTC

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>Also do they see key lookup for encryption on first contact as a
>requirement?  Or is signature-only first contact with encryption
>keys provided optionally on reply, their preferred  model for
>encryption key distribution.

How does that differ from what S/MIME does now, give or take the warts
of which CAs you trust?

It seems to me that SMIMEA offers two things:

* verify an incoming signature without reference to a CA

* encrypt mail to people who haven't already sent you a key

Of the two, the second seems much more important.  If it's only the
first, I don't think it's worth the effort.

R's,
John

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