From: Jeremy Harris Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:26:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Docs: clarify DKIM key generation X-Git-Tag: exim-4_94_RC0~103 X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff_plain/b0ba87102e53501a3d4abfe29288b2efc7816fea Docs: clarify DKIM key generation --- diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index fbcad3d6f..888eb7f60 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -40175,6 +40175,8 @@ To generate keys under OpenSSL: openssl genrsa -out dkim_rsa.private 2048 openssl rsa -in dkim_rsa.private -out /dev/stdout -pubout -outform PEM .endd +The result file from the first command should be retained, and +this option set to use it. Take the base-64 lines from the output of the second command, concatenated, for the DNS TXT record. See section 3.6 of RFC6376 for the record specification.