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Re: [Ietf-dkim] RFC 8463: DNS textual form underspecified

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 14 April 2024 01:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ietf-dkim] RFC 8463: DNS textual form underspecified
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It appears that Steffen Nurpmeso  <steffen@sdaoden.eu> said:
> |I realize that RFC 8463 says repeatedly that the base64-encoded
> |representation of an ED25519 key is 44 bytes, and that the
> |examples go for this.  Still there is no wording that the entire
> |ASN.1 structure shall be thrown away.

Yeah, I should have been clearer.

>That cannot be the reason Google, Microsoft and more do not
>support that, right.  It is a bit bizarre that these huge RSA keys
>are used all over the place, whereas the even stripped-naked ones
>are not.

It's the same reason as the last umpteen times you asked.

R's,
John

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