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An application of host identity tags to DKIM for identifying signers

Published: 27 August 2009 Publication History

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The DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) protocol gives a solution to guarantee the authentication and the integrity of e-mail messages. And in practice, to make DKIM come from theory to engineering, a concept of ADSP (Author Domain Signing Practice) has been put forth in an IETF draft. However, on the aspects of identifying a signer and delegating the signing ability, ADSP fails to give a specification. Yet the HITs (Host Identity Tags), put forth in RFC 5201, are born to identify signers featuring asymmetric key pairs and HITs will offer extra functions for security of the keys involved and management of the identifiers. This paper proposes to apply HITs to DKIM for identifying signers.

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[1]
IETF, "Analysis of Threats Motivating DKIM", RFC 4686, September 2006. DOI=http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4686.txt
[2]
IETF, "An IPv6 Prefix for Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers", RFC 4843, April 2007. DOI=http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4843.txt
[3]
IETF, "DKIM Author Domain Signing Practices", draft-ietf-dkim-ssp-09, February 5, 2009. DOI=http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-dkim-ssp-09.txt
[4]
IETF, "DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures", RFC 4871, May 2007. DOI=http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4871
[5]
IETF, "Embedding Host Identity Tags Data in DNS", draft-ponomarev-hip-hit2hip-03, March 9, 2009. DOI=http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ponomarev-hip-hit2hip-03.txt
[6]
IETF, "Host Identity Protocol", RFC 5201, April 2008. DOI=http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5201.txt

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ICHIT '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology
August 2009
687 pages
ISBN:9781605586625
DOI:10.1145/1644993
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Published: 27 August 2009

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  1. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)
  2. DNS
  3. HIT (Host Identity Tag)
  4. identification

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