[dkim-dev] Updated implementations

Douglas Otis dotis at mail-abuse.org
Tue Jun 20 11:24:59 PDT 2006


On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Mircea Purdea wrote:

>
>
> Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>> To those of you with implementations modified to support base-01  
>> and base-02 (mainly the "bh" tag), did you leave in backward  
>> compatibility for verifying signatures generated with base-00?
>>
>> A customer is wondering what impact it'll have if they use the  
>> newer code.
>
> My implementation no longer supports the old spec. Like someone on  
> the -ietf list said, it's bad practice to prolong the use of  
> expired drafts.
> You know, progress, and all that...

While this sounds reasonable,  http:/www.mipassoc.org/dkim/ website  
does not offer this advice.  It does seem DomainKeys would be the  
stable version.  DKIM current would be for testing and trials.

-Doug



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