Re: [openpgp] [dane] The DANE draft

["Jiankang Yao" <[e-mail]>]

From: Paul Wouters
Date: 2015-08-06 16:23
To: dane WG list
CC: IETF OpenPGP
Subject: Re: [dane] [openpgp] The DANE draft
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Carsten Strotmann wrote:

>> for OPENPGPKEY/SMIMECERT zones, operators could (maybe SHOULD) use
>> NSEC/NSEC3 "narrow" signing to prevent "zone-walking".
>
>email addresses are not secret. That is not the privacy you can protect
>at all. Anyone can either do a internet search or just attempt to
>deliver an email to figure out if the email address is valid.
>
>

if there is a "email zone walking", the email spammer can use this feature to get the valid addrees easily and send trash emails.
If we hope to prevent the spammer from getting the email address easily, the email address should be regarded as secret.


Jiankang Yao