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Re: [dane] email canonicalization for SMIMEA owner names

Paul Wouters <paul@cypherpunks.ca> Fri, 12 December 2014 02:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dane] email canonicalization for SMIMEA owner names
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

>    * Domains that publish user SMIMEA records, which intend for
>      for the names to be treated case insensitively, compute two
>      hashes for each name:
>
> 	    SHA2-224("Frank.Jr.")            -> <base32-hash1>
> 	    SHA2-224(@lower:"frank.jr.") -> <base32-hash2>
>
>      The DNS records are then:
>
> 	<base32-hash1>.example.com. IN SMIMEA ...
> 	<base32-hash2>.example.com. IN CNAME <base32-hash1>

Are you confusing wire format with presentation format? Why the extra
base32 ?

Paul

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