Even so, I would have to retrieve different resource records than the ones used if DNS was used to resolve the email address. So I adding some sort of DNS information retrieval was something I had already counted on.
Ofcourse if no form of DNS-resolver functionality exists in the library it will make it harder but I still think it's possible to use DANE. -Pontus Ericson 2011/10/14 Wan-Teh Chang <w...@google.com> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Pontus Ericson <kpc.eric...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I mailed this mailinglist a few weeks ago regarding the development of > > DNS-based certification authentication for S/MIME. > > > > I am now starting the project fully and I'm going to use > Thunderbird/Mozilla > > NSS in the development. I was not part of the mailinglist at the time of > my > > first mail so if any answer to that mail got directed to the list I did > > sadly not recieve it. > > Hi Pontus, > > Here is the reply I sent last time: > > Are you sure DANE can be used to verify email certificates? We don't > use DNS to resolve email addresses. > > Wan-Teh > -- > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto > -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto