A new cryptographic signature method for DKIM
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Network Working Group J. Levine
Internet-Draft Taughannock Networks
Updates: 6376 (if approved) May 29, 2018
Intended status: Standards Track
Expires: November 30, 2018
A new cryptographic signature method for DKIM
draft-ietf-dcrup-dkim-crypto-10
Abstract
This document adds a new signing algorithm to DKIM, ed25519-sha256.
DKIM verifiers are required to implement this algorithm.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Ed25519-SHA256 Signing Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Signature and key syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.1. Signature syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.2. Key syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5. Key and algorithm choice and strength . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Transition Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
8.1. DKIM Key Type registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
9.3. URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Appendix A. Example of a signed message . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
A.1. Secret key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
A.2. Public key DNS record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A.3. Signed Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Appendix B. Change log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1. Introduction
Discussion Venue: Discussion about this draft is directed to the
dcrup@ietf.org [1] mailing list.
DKIM [RFC6376] signs e-mail messages, by creating hashes of the
message headers and body and signing the header hash with a digital
signature. Message recipients fetch the signature verification key
from the DNS. The defining documents specify a single signing
algorithm, RSA [RFC3447].
This document adds a new stronger signing algorithm, Edwards-Curve
Digital Signature Algorithm using the Curve25519 curve (ed25519),
which has much shorter keys than RSA for similar levels of security.
2. Conventions Used in This Document
The capitalized key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL",
"SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
[RFC2119].
Syntax descriptions use Augmented BNF (ABNF) [RFC5234]. The ABNF
tokens sig-a-tag-k and key-k-tag-type are imported from [RFC6376].
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3. Ed25519-SHA256 Signing Algorithm
The ed25519-sha256 signing algorithm computes a message hash as
defined in section 3 of [RFC6376] using SHA-256 [FIPS-180-4-2015] as
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