On Sep 9, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote:
> It was brought to my attention by Matthias Wimmer that we overlooked > an important issue with respect to the base32 generation of the base32 > encoded left hand side of the email address. "We" did not overlook that: as author, I made that decision completely purposefully. > Mail servers and mail clients do not treat email addresses as > case-insensitive. That is sometimes-true statement. > When encoding an LHS with base32, the case matters. Yes, exactly. And so does internationalization. > Using the wrong case will cause you to not find the SMIMEA / OPENPGPKEY > record. Yep. And will cause you to sometimes send mail to the wrong recipient. > We should probably add a section explaining this, and perhaps suggest to > lowercase before base32'ing the LHS for the lookup. Yes; no. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
