Re: [dispatch] Updating DKIM for stronger crypto

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 06 February 2017 02:33 UTC

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> On 06/02/17 02:08, John Levine wrote:
>> Does this seem reasonable?
>
> Eminently, assuming implementers want ed25519 and those deploying will 
> adopt it. There are, IMO, good reasons for both to also like that idea, 
> but whether or not they realise that is to be seen I guess.

It is my impression that the majority of DKIM signing and verifying is 
done using a small number of libraries.  If we can get the big gorillas on 
board, and arrange to upgrade the C opendkim, perl Mail::DKIM, and python 
pydkim, routine upgrades will do most of the rest.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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