[ietf-dkim] base-02: Normative order of verification steps

[Eric Allman]

There's some place in the draft where it says "these steps must be 
performed such that the semantics are identical to processing them in 
this order" --- i.e., it makes the sequential nature be to define 
semantics, not to implement the code.  I think that's probably 
appropriate here as well.

eric



--On May 31, 2006 1:29:20 PM -0700 Jim Fenton <fenton at cisco.com> 
wrote:

> Section 6 of base-02 defines a specific order for the steps in the
> verification process.  The last sentence of section 6 says,
> "Verifiers MUST apply the following steps in the order listed."
>
> I think this is too prescriptive of the verification process.
> Later on, it does say that some of the steps can happen in
> parallel, but it can go further than that.  It should be possible,
> for example, to verify the body hash on a message, and if it
> doesn't match, it shouldn't be necessary to retrieve the key at
> all.  Can we instead concentrate on the steps that need to be
> performed rather than their order?
>
> -Jim
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