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Re: Domain Key support

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Subject: Re: Domain Key support
From: Russ Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:47:06 -0400
Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys
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Kyle Wheeler writes:
 > On Thursday, March 22 at 05:05 PM, quoth John Levine:
 > > That was a while ago.  The IETF working group finished, the DKIM 
 > > standard is done.  It's in the queue to be edited into an RFC, but 
 > > the rules for that say that there's only editorial changes, not 
 > > technical ones, between now and RFC-hood.
 > 
 > That's fine, but it doesn't change the fact that Russ hasn't made 
 > qmail-dkim, and seems pretty fervent about it.

Only to the extent that it stood, for two years, in the way of larger
DomainKeys adoption.  Well, and also because it adds complexity.
Complexity in cryptographic code is not encouraging.

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