Re: Public Key Look Up

Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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