On 10/24/12 9:18 PM, Jon Callas wrote:
>
> Note the weasel-words "long-lived." I think that the people caught out
in this were risking things -- but let's > also note that the length of
exposure is the TTL of the DNS entries.

I wouldn't characterize those as weasel-words, but rather that they were
intentionally vague given the computational advances that can be
expected during the lifetime of an IETF specification.

John Graham observed this problem in mid-2010:
http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/facebooks-dkim-rsa-key-should-be.html

and I did a survey of key lengths used by known signing domains at the time:
http://blogs.cisco.com/security/key_lengths_for_dkim_signatures/

It would be interesting to see if the distribution has changed since
then, but unfortunately I don't have access to that info any more.

-Jim (another of the authors)

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