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Re: dkim-base: _domainkey vs _dkim: msg#00519

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Subject: Re: dkim-base: _domainkey vs _dkim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliot Lear" <lear@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Hector Santos" <hsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Hector,
>> For humans, computers or both?
>>
>
> I was thinking computers, but really this is small potatos. For one,
> you have to do the signature verification and this is going to be the
> CPU intensive component of the operation. And as we've heard from
> implementors, most people are disk or network bound anyway.

I asked because flexibility, including human readability, even at the
expense of extra bytes seems to be a popular desire. I'm going thru this
issue right now for a proposal I'm writing. A few offlist reviewers
preferred an expanded human literal form which, although very readable, it
also tripled its size. :-)

---
Hector









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