John R. Levine:

> The most likely issue would be that the TXT records don't fit in a  
> 512 byte response packet which is a problem for some cruddy  
> middleboxes.

that was exactly the reason I started using 4k keys. I wanted to make sure
at least my infrastructure could handle DNS over TCP everywhere.

> Could you explain what problem you believe needs 4K rather than 2K  
> keys? DKIM is not PGP or S/MIME and is not intended for long term  
> protection of confidential data.  It's just a short term assurance  
> that a particular message in transit was signed by a particular  
> signer.
correct.

> I rotate my keys every month, which appears to be the shortest DKIM  
> rotation time in the world.  Most people do it every six months or a  
> year.
I agree, too.
In practice it's a trade off between keysize and key age...

Do you think, the DKIM specification should be more detailed on this  
pros and cons?

Andreas


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