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Yahoo and Cisco have joined forces to promote a cryptographic approach for authenticating e-mail in the battle against fraud and spam. The two companies announced Wednesday that they are combining their two separate authentication proposals into a new specification called DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, and are planning to propose it as a Web standard.
Yahoo Inc. has been rallying around an approach it calls DomainKeys since late 2003, while Cisco Systems Inc. a year ago developed a authentication technology called Internet Identified Mail.
Both use public key cryptography in an attempt to verify the sender of an e-mail to combat the fraud used in phishing attacks and spam.
The merged specification, which has yet to be finalized, will combine DomainKeys' method of verifying a sender at the level of the Internet's DNS (Domain Name System) with the Identified Internet Mail specification's approach for maintaining the consistency of header signatures in messages as they transverse networks, said officials with the companies.
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Yahoo Inc. has been rallying around an approach it calls DomainKeys since late 2003, while Cisco Systems Inc. a year ago developed a authentication technology called Internet Identified Mail.
Both use public key cryptography in an attempt to verify the sender of an e-mail to combat the fraud used in phishing attacks and spam.
The merged specification, which has yet to be finalized, will combine DomainKeys' method of verifying a sender at the level of the Internet's DNS (Domain Name System) with the Identified Internet Mail specification's approach for maintaining the consistency of header signatures in messages as they transverse networks, said officials with the companies.
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