> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Thomas [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:48 AM
> To: Murray S. Kucherawy
> Cc: Michael Ströder; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Clarification needed for "Computing the
> Message Hashes"
> 
> You're computing two hashes.  The first is a hash over the signed
> header fields (which gets stored in the "bh="), and the second is over
> the body followed by the (incomplete) DKIM-Signature header field.
> 
> Did you write that correctly, Murray? The *body* hash gets stored into
> bh. I think you mean

Sorry, yes.  That was my pre-coffee answer.  It's:

1) Compute the body hash.  Store that in "bh=".

2) Compute a hash over all the header fields to be signed, in order, including 
the partial DKIM-Signature header field at the end without a trailing CRLF.

3) Encrypt that.  Store that in "b=".


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