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Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM Key Sizes

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Sun, 30 October 2016 21:51 UTC

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> It's also probably worth ensuring that the major open source DKIM
> implementations support both signing and verifying with 4096-bit keys.
> Aside from OpenDKIM and dkimpy, are there any others that should be checked?

Perl Mail::DKIM is still widely used.  It calls Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA which 
is a wrapper around openssl so I'd be surprised if it had trouble with 
large keys.

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John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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