Re: [Dcrup] [taugh.com-standards] Warren Kumari's No Objection on draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-crypto-13: (with COMMENT)

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Mon, 18 June 2018 22:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dcrup] [taugh.com-standards] Warren Kumari's No Objection on draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-crypto-13: (with COMMENT)
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2018, Warren Kumari wrote:
> Section 7.  Security Considerations
> "Ed25519 is a widely used cryptographic technique, so the security of DKIM
> signatures using new signing algorithms should be at least as good as those
> using old algorithms."
>
> Could this be reworded? This might just be a pet peeve, but as it is written,
> it is, I believe, false[0].

Fixed in my latest version which I will post once I'm sure there's really 
really really nothing more to change, just says to look at 8032.

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