Re: Public Key Look Up
Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]>
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On Wed 12/May/2021 20:44:34 +0200 Dave Crocker wrote: > On 5/12/2021 9:57 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> >> 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.) > > DKIM doesn't use encryption, but it does do signing, which is a crypto function. > > More simply: the thing that is published in a DKIM record is a public key. Right. Anyway, if I encrypted something using your DKIM public key, you could easily decrypt it using the private key. (There's a script by the Monkeysphere Project, pem2openpgp, which can transform a DKIM private key into an OpenPGP key for signing. A silly exercise.) Best Ale -- _______________________________________________ ietf-smtp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-smtp