On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 08:58:37AM -0700, =JeffH wrote:
> some of us have been around this overall block before back in the
> mid-to-late '90s.

Oh yes, I remember sendmail fuzzy matching.

> from my personal perspective, based on past experience, here's what
> I think would be viable for standardization from a high-level
> non-DANE-specific perspective..
> 
> ###
> 1. given email addr of "[email protected]"
> 
> 2. find a "local-part lookup service"  at "example.org" [eg using
> SRV lookup in DNS]

And how to authenticate the service using DANE.

> 3. query example.org's local-part lookup service for info (eg public
> key) mapped to "foobar"
> 
> 4. this results in an answer (eg public key) or not [eg "not found" status 
> code]
> ###

Yes.  A lookup service.  And if we're going to do this, then there's no
much point to putting local-part -> public keys in DNS.

Problem: DNS (even with DNSPRIV) is much more light-weight than any
         service that uses TLS.

Solution: Make a light-weight lookup (idempotent) protocol.

To start we could use TLS.

(Since we're talking about a lookup protocol, there are TLS features
that are not needed, such as replay protection, session resumption, and
so on.  At minimum server authentication [via public keys published in
the DNS] and confidentiality and integrity protection are all that's
needed.)

Nico
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