Re: [dane] Working group Last call: draft-ietf-dane-smime-11.txt

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 09 July 2016 18:24 UTC

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>Any other issues should be brought forward 

Also, I see that there's a disclaimer about the semantics of
the certificates, but I'm still confused.

At this point, all S/MIME certificates are signed by a CA, and MUAs
typically put ugly red marks on message with a cert with an unknown CA.

I gather the idea here is that the certs can be self-signed, and
they're credible in the absence of a CA signature because the domain
is asserting something about them via DNSSEC publication.  But it
never says that, or anything like that.

R's,
John