DKIM TTPs (was Re: [ietf-dkim] editorials and nits)

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Wed Jul 5 14:36:01 PDT 2006


At 12:44 PM -0700 7/5/06, Douglas Otis wrote:
>DKIM generally represents a domain wide entity.  A trusted third 
>party (TTP) establishes trust between two parties when both trust 
>the third party.  For DKIM, the TTP would be the signing domain 
>verified by DNS.

This is completely wrong, and goes against nearly everything that 
this WG has been working on. The signing domain is *not* trusted.

Does anyone other than Doug think that it is?


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