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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2018-04-13 11:51:50 +0100
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2018-04-13 11:51:50 +0100
commit321ef002e23ff171922075988bcd8e77bae884b7 (patch)
treee175340e36494ba62043d8b6493214215b4b9d1f /doc
parent0f9d3f8ba8cf8b559b74ba9166d8a436498651b4 (diff)
DKIM: add support for the SubjectPublicKeyInfo wrapped form of pubkey
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt5
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index d8f1573c9..a35a8bf26 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -39067,6 +39067,11 @@ To produce the required public key value for a DNS record:
openssl pkey -outform DER -pubout -in dkim_ed25519.private | tail -c +13 | base64
certtool --load_privkey=dkim_ed25519.private --pubkey_info --outder | tail -c +13 | base64
.endd
+
+Note that the format
+of Ed25519 keys in DNS has not yet been decided; this release supports
+both of the leading candidates at this time, a future release will
+probably drop support for whichever proposal loses
.wen
.option dkim_hash smtp string&!! sha256
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index 9fc466365..83a37d515 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
suffix list.
+JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
+ since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
+ "bare" representation.
+
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