Re: [Dcrup] I-D draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-crypto-06

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 22 November 2017 04:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dcrup] I-D draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-crypto-06
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In article <00d888c1-64c9-9f26-0426-fbbb17fc5bdc@wizmail.org> you write:
>On 21/11/17 22:03, John Levine wrote:
>> Keeping in mind that you're responding to a message I wrote two months ago ...
>> 
>> In article <383fef94-84c4-9b54-5566-a6fa1279aa38@wizmail.org> you write:
>>> Wouldn't it be more aesthetically pleasing to decouple, for dkim
>>> a=ed25519-sha256 signing, the hash used for the body (sha256 as
>>> specified by the 'a' tag) from the hash used for signing headers
>>> (sha512, I think, but whatever the libraries have tied to
>>> Ed25519 signing)?
>> 
>> No.
>
>I think you need to further support your position.

You might want to review some of the 100 messages posted to this list
since the one you were responding to.

R's,
John

PS: look for the ones about many libraries don't plan to provide the
pure version of ed25519, and how we agreed to deal with that.