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DomainKeys Gets Approved by IETF

Friday, May 25th, 2007

DomainKeys or DKIM, a standard for signing email which was proposed by Yahoo over 2 years ago, was finally approved by the IETF and published as RFC 4871. Congrats to all the people that made it possible.

DomainKeys WG Chartered by the IETF

Friday, January 6th, 2006

After over a year of pre-WG work, the IETF finally chartered a new WG to work on DKIM (merger of Yahoo's DomainKeys and Cisco's IdenfitiedMail). John Levine has more on this.

Security Review of DomainKeys and IIM

Friday, January 28th, 2005

The IETF just published a security review of MASS proposals, specifically DomainKeys and IIM (hat tip to Andrew Newton, former co-chair of MARID WG). Two main security concerns highlighted are replay attacks and DOS attacks, both of each have been mentioned in the ASRG some time ago. As for replay ...

Something’s Cooking at the IETF with Email Authentication

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

(This article was published by Circle-ID) DISCLAIMER: I do not have any inside knowledge regarding this nor have I discussed this with any IETF folks. This is based purely on publically available information. A few months ago, Ted Hardie (AD of Applications for the IETF) informed the MARID WG in the closure ...

2004: The Year That Promised Email Authentication

Saturday, December 25th, 2004

(This article was published at Circle-ID) As the year comes to a close, it is important to reflect on what has been one of the major actions in the anti-spam arena this year: the quest for email authentication. With email often called the "killer app" of the Internet, it is important ...

Yahoo Begins to Use DomainKeys

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

According to a CNET article, Yahoo will begin on Monday to sign all outgoing email with DomainKeys signatures: Yahoo on Monday will begin attaching antispam technology to all of its outgoing e-mails, hoping that other providers will follow suit. Messages from its free e-mail service will include a "Domain Key," a ...

Gmail Starts to Use DomainKeys

Sunday, October 17th, 2004

According to to a post at IETF's MAIL-SIG list by my old collegue, John Levine; Google has begun to sign outgoing email from Gmail with Yahoo's DomainKeys signatures. This is the first large provider of email that is actually doing so (not even Yahoo has started that yet). A quick ...

Sender authentication moving ahead

Friday, May 21st, 2004

A lot of things happened this week: MAAWG meeting took place, Yahoo submitted DomainKeys to the IETF and a Microsoft submitted Caller ID draft to the IETF and SPF is merging with Caller ID via an addition of an ESMTP parameter for MAIL FROM. Architechurally speaking, I liked the idea ...