Saturday, May 07, 2005

Yahoo Announces DomainKeys

Yahoo! has announced a new technology called DomainKeys to reduce spams which is getting wilder from time to time. Here is the definition from their official website :

DomainKeys is a technology proposal that can bring black and white back to this decision process by giving email providers a mechanism for verifying both the domain of each email sender and the integrity of the messages sent (i.e,. that they were not altered during transit). And, once the domain can be verified, it can be compared to the domain used by the sender in the From: field of the message to detect forgeries. If it's a forgery, then it's spam or fraud, and it can be dropped without impact to the user. If it's not a forgery, then the domain is known, and a persistent reputation profile can be established for that sending domain that can be tied into anti-spam policy systems, shared between service providers, and even exposed to the user.

If you want to see how it works, visit their official website for more technical explanations and also some FAQs.

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