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Re: [perpass] perpass: what next?

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 19 April 2015 03:26 UTC

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>-Key discovery in email has been kicked around a bunch, but no
>reasonable proposals yet. Doesn't seem that hard.

There's a draft in DANE which I think is fatally flawed for reasons
that boil down to DNS lookups are utterly unlike mailbox lookups.  

I agree it's not that hard.  Something like webfinger with the http
server found via SRV should work.

R's,
John

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