RFC 6376: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) permits a person, role, or organization that owns the signing domain to claim some responsibility for a message by…

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Outgoing relationships (3 related RFCs)

Obsoletes — RFC 4871: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures
Obsoletes — RFC 5672: RFC 4871 DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures -- Update
Normative reference — RFC 5322: Internet Message Format

Incoming relationships (27 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 8553: DNS Attrleaf Changes: Fixing Specifications That Use Underscored Node Names
Updated by — RFC 8616: Email Authentication for Internationalized Mail
Updated by — RFC 8301: Cryptographic Algorithm and Key Usage Update to DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
Updated by — RFC 8463: A New Cryptographic Signature Method for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7489: Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6591: Authentication Failure Reporting Using the Abuse Reporting Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6651: Extensions to DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) for Failure Reporting
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6377: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Mailing Lists
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7073: A Reputation Response Set for Email Identifiers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7960: Interoperability Issues between Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) and Indirect Email Flows
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8823: Extensions to Automatic Certificate Management Environment for End-User S/MIME Certificates
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6477: Registration of Military Message Handling System (MMHS) Header Fields for Use in Internet Mail
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7508: Securing Header Fields with S/MIME
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9989: Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6698: The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6409: Message Submission for Mail
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7071: A Media Type for Reputation Interchange
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7486: HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6650: Creation and Use of Email Feedback Reports: An Applicability Statement for the Abuse Reporting Format (ARF)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6430: Email Feedback Report Type Value: not-spam
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7601: Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9787: Guidance on End-to-End Email Security
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9788: Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected Email
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6758: Tunneling of SMTP Message Transfer Priorities
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8904: DNS Whitelist (DNSWL) Email Authentication Method Extension
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9671: Sieve Email Filtering: Extension for Processing Calendar Attachments
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9891: Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Node ID Validation Extension