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A wildcard publishes the same DKIM key at every selector

URGENT

DKIM · Urgent · costs 25 points · RFC 6376 section 3.6.1

What it means

Every selector we asked about on example.com returned the same key, including one we invented. Anyone who can sign with that key can pick any selector name they like and it will verify, so rotating a compromised selector does nothing and you cannot retire a key without retiring all of them.

How to fix it

Remove the wildcard TXT record under _domainkey and publish each key at its own named selector. Wildcards under _domainkey exist almost always by accident, usually a *.example.com record meant for something else.

Check your own domain

This page describes the condition. To find out whether your domain has it, run the DKIM test or the full checkup, which examines every record at once.

Understand it properly

This page covers one condition. For the whole picture, What is DKIM, selectors and key strength, or start at the Health Library.

Where this comes from

We judge this against RFC 6376 section 3.6.1. Every finding on this site cites the specification behind it so you can check the work rather than take our word for it.

Other DKIM conditions

DKIM_WILDCARD_KEY

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