IETF Approves DKIM To Fight Spam And Phishing
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved DomainKeys Identified Mail specification (DKIM) to fight spam and phishing. The challenge now is to get the specification adopted now that it has finally been agreed upon.
Sendmail Sentrion mail appliances and their switches and the Open Source Sendmail server all support it. Yahoo!’s Web mail service has supported it for years and Google’s Gmail service signs messages with it. For a simple explanation of the DKIM standard, go here the announcement by Mark Delany (the inventor of the standard) is on the Yahoo! company blog here.
[tags]spam, phish, security[/tags]
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Richi Jennings
May 25th, 2007
at 4:35am
DKIM is not an anti-spam technique, at least not directly. We need other pieces of the puzzle before it’s useful for fighting spam. See my blog for more.