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WttW: Errors in DKIM records
- February 28, 2024
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Word to the Wise
Word to the Wise just released a new engaging story:
TXT Records DKIM public keys live in DNS TXT records. A DNS TXT record contains strings of text, and each string is limited to be no more than 255 characters long. Recommended practice for DKIM at the moment is to use 2048 bit keys (1024 bit keys aren’t insecure, but they’re looking a bit weak and 2048 is where folks have mostly decided to move to). But a 2048 bit DKIM key is going to be around 400 characters long. So how do we fit that into a TXT record? A TXT record can contain more than one string, so we can split the 400 character public key into two strings, put both of those strings in a single TXT record and the DKIM validator will join those two strings back together and use them to validate the email. A single TXT record containing three strings Editing your DNS Unfortunately
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