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.
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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.
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Andy mentions a rather interesting list message from Sam Varshavchik, the author of Courier (an open source MTA licensed under the GPL):
> I was wondering if (Yahoo"s) Domainkeys is considered to be implemented in Courier.
No. Yahoo has patent claims on Domainkeys, which are not licensed under GPL-compatible terms.
For the curious, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
Yahoo has finally made public their DomainKeys draft which has also been submitted to the IETF.
Actually someone mentioned this was going to happen at today's MAAWG meeting but I did not expect it so soon. Hopefully MSFT will follow with Caller-ID draft submitted to the IETF. It was also mentioned ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2004
Yesterday I attended the spam workshop at NIST in DC area. Overall, I had a wonderful time and I would like to highlight some of the more interesting things I heard.
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