On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

> It appears that Wei Chuang  <[email protected]> said:
> >-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >Hi all,
> >I'm announcing the Internet-Draft for the "Domain Name specification for
> >DKIM2".
> >https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chuang-dkim2-dns/02/
> >
> >DKIM2 intends to be compatible with the existing DKIM installed base of
> >keys hence this part of the specification is essentially the same as
> >RFC6376 with an update for more modern algorithms. ...
>
> It mostly looks fine but I have a few questions.
>
> It currently only lists k=rsa for RSA signatures.  If we're only going to
> have one signature scheme, it should be k=ed25519 since those signatures
> are
> smaller and faster to compute and verify.
>

That's an oversight on my part.  I can add that in when the upload service
is open again.


> When we added a new crypto algorithm we realized that you can only have one
> key per selector.I gather the plan is to allow multiple signatures
> in the same dkim2-signature header so the key records will need to allow
> that.
>
> One possibility would be to relax the rule about one key TXT record per
> selector
> to allow multiple records but the k= values have to be different, e.g.
> k=ed25519
> in one and k=postquantum in the other.  Another possibility would be to
> keep it
> one record, but make the k= h= p= be comma separated lists rather than
> single
> values.
>

IMO either of these approaches could be sensible.  Happy to document once a
particular direction is settled upon especially wrt to how the signature
will be specified.  My guess is that the comma separated will be a little
bit more straight forward to specify.
-Wei


>
> R's,
> John
>
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