Re: Public Key Look Up

Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed 12/May/2021 18:46:08 +0200 Dave Crocker wrote:
> On 5/12/2021 9:31 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
>> Right.  Your MX publishes a public key to which it has the corresponding
>> private key.


It doesn't have to.  The mail-based update protocol for wkd[*], for example, is designed to keep the secret key secret.


>> This is well understood technology - see any company that intercepts
>> https:// and re-encrypts the user-side traffic using their own keys.> 
> or DKIM.


Neither case provides for end-to-end crypto.  (Hm... possibly except DKIM for postmaster to postmaster communication, deploying the binary key as OpenGPG.  Not an alluring technique.)


Best
Ale
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[*] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service#section-4













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