Subscribe by EmailPromising New Antispam Technique Gains Key Approval
May 23, 2007 by Geeks are Sexy | 2 comments
Spam haters rejoice! The Internet Engineering Task Force just gave its approval to the first draft of a new anti-spam technology that promises to stench the ever-increasing flow of junk mail that arrives to your inbox. The technology, called DomainKeys Identified Mail, works by integrating a digital signature in the header of an organization’s outgoing e-mail messages. When a signed message arrives at destination, its signature gets verified by the receiving mail server. If the message is determined to be legitimate, it will be delivered as usual, and if not, it will be flagged as spam.
Here’s an example of what an embedded DomainKeys header looks like:
DKIM-Signature a=rsa-sha1; q=dns;
d=example.net;
i=user@eng.example.net;
s=jun2005.eng; c=relaxed/simple;
t=1117574938; x=1118006938;
h=from:to:subject:date;
b=dzdVyOfAKCdLXdJOc9G2q8LoXSlEniSb
av+yuU4zGeeruD00lszZVoG4ZHRNiYzR
For those of you who wish to read more about this technology, you can do so on DomainKeys’ official website.
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Yippee – I’m so happy to finally see something new being done about spam!
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