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In message <[email protected]>, John Levine <[email protected]>
writes
>According to Richard Clayton  <[email protected]>:
>>A very common arrangement is for the brand to set up a CNAME rather than
>>sharing key material. 
>
>Huh?  It needs to share the private key so the ESP can sign the mail.

the ESP creates the private and public key, the brand sets up a CNAME
that points into the ESP's DNS where they have placed a public key
record

>The main benefits of the CNAME is that it's a lot shorter than the full
>public key and so more likely to work with provisioning crudware that
>can't handle long text strings, and it's easier for the brand to revoke
>if they have a falling out with the ESP.

these statements are also true

- -- 
richard @ highwayman . com                       "Nothing seems the same
                          Still you never see the change from day to day
                                And no-one notices the customs slip away"

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