Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Gellner, Oliver via mailop
> Am 21.12.2023 um 13:28 schrieb Andrew C Aitchison via mailop > : > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, John R Levine via mailop wrote: >> I'm sure that Google has code somewhere that can validate ED25519 >> signatures. But that does not mean that it would be a good idea for them to >> use that code in pr

Re: [mailop] DKIM validity period

2023-12-21 Thread Gellner, Oliver via mailop
Am 21.12.2023 um 12:44 schrieb Slavko via mailop : Dňa 20. 12. o 22:38 Gellner, Oliver via mailop napísal(a): I’m not 100% sure what you mean by „signed forever“, but to change the topic of this thread once more (and still stay on topic for this mailing list): While the DKIM signature of an e

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
My point is not cryptographic merit. FWIW, any DKIM algorithm is way more secure than what we need to authenticate emails, even RSA-SHA1 with 700bytes keys (oh well, 512b keys were broken as a proof of concept some time ago.) As Oliver pointed out, all those algorithms are more than enough goo

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread John R Levine via mailop
On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Mike Hillyer wrote: John Said: I'm sure that Google has code somewhere that can validate ED25519 signatures. But that does not mean that it would be a good idea for them to use that code in production today and try to update their reputation systems to deal with the dual s

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Slavko via mailop
Dňa 21. decembra 2023 15:05:08 UTC používateľ Alessandro Vesely via mailop napísal: >It seems only (few) small servers dare implementing ed25519. > >I don't understand why. Do you really don't understand that or do you afraid of what is comming into mind? AFAIK: + collaboration of NSA & RSA (

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Mike Hillyer via mailop
Oh I was only speaking to the concept of handling multiple signatures, not the processing of a new crypto algorithm. From: Alessandro Vesely Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2023 10:05 AM To: Mike Hillyer; mailop@mailop.org; John R Levine Subject: Re: [mailop

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Thu 21/Dec/2023 14:53:55 +0100 Mike Hillyer via mailop wrote: John Said: I'm sure that Google has code somewhere that can validate ED25519 signatures. But that does not mean that it would be a good idea for them to use that code in production today and try to update their reputation syste

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Mike Hillyer via mailop
John Said: > I'm sure that Google has code somewhere that can validate ED25519 > signatures. But that does not mean that it would be a good idea for them > to use that code in production today and try to update their reputation > systems to deal with the dual signing that implies. With the numbe

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, John R Levine via mailop wrote: On Thu 21/Dec/2023 10:37:52 +0100 John Levine via mailop wrote: Yes, your code should handle them. No, that doesn't mean you should sign with them. Yup. The question was why Gmail doesn't /verify/ ed25519 signatures. Answering that they

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Stuart Henderson via mailop
On 2023/12/21 11:44, John R Levine via mailop wrote: > > On Thu 21/Dec/2023 10:37:52 +0100 John Levine via mailop wrote: > > > Yes, your code should handle them. No, that doesn't mean you should > > > sign with them. > > > > Yup. The question was why Gmail doesn't /verify/ ed25519 signatures. >

Re: [mailop] DKIM validity period

2023-12-21 Thread Slavko via mailop
Dňa 20. 12. o 22:38 Gellner, Oliver via mailop napísal(a): I’m not 100% sure what you mean by „signed forever“, but to change the topic of this thread once more (and still stay on topic for this mailing list): While the DKIM signature of an email will of course exist forever, it can lose its

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Kai Bojens via mailop
Am 21.12.23 um 10:36 schrieb John Levine via mailop: They're a little faster to create and check than RSA, but the difference isn't enough to matter. They are also very small in comparison to RSA keys. IMHO that's a great argument when you distribute public keys via DNS.

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Benny Pedersen via mailop
John R Levine via mailop skrev den 2023-12-21 11:44: As I've said several times, unless there is a cryptographic problem with RSA, there is no reason to *use* any other kind of signature. analogy to no need to have ipv6 when ipv4 works :) ___ mailop

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread John R Levine via mailop
On Thu 21/Dec/2023 10:37:52 +0100 John Levine via mailop wrote: Yes, your code should handle them. No, that doesn't mean you should sign with them. Yup. The question was why Gmail doesn't /verify/ ed25519 signatures. Answering that they do so because it's not necessary to use them doesn't s

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Thu 21/Dec/2023 10:37:52 +0100 John Levine via mailop wrote: It appears that Alessandro Vesely via mailop said: RFC 8463 still reads out: Signers SHOULD implement and verifiers MUST implement the Ed25519-SHA256 algorithm. Implement is not a synonym for use. Yes, your code should ha

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Alessandro Vesely via mailop said: >RFC 8463 still reads out: > >Signers SHOULD implement and verifiers MUST implement the >Ed25519-SHA256 algorithm. Implement is not a synonym for use. Yes, your code should handle them. No, that doesn't mean you should sign with them.

Re: [mailop] ECDSA DKIM validation?

2023-12-21 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Gellner, Oliver via mailop said: >> Won't any Google insider shred some lite on why a generally technically >> sound company lags like that? > >I‘m not an insider but I could imagine that DKIM signatures which use EdDSA >and ECDSA are solutions to a problem that has >not yet been