Powerful new antiphishing weapon DKIM emerges

Slashdot reports that Yahoo, Google, PayPal and other of the Internet's most powerful companies have a new weapon in the ongoing battle against email fraud. DKIM, which stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail, permits organizations to cryptographically sign outgoing email to verify that it sent the message.

"DKIM increases the trust with which people can regard their e-mail,"says Jim Fenton, a distinguished engineer with Cisco and one of the authors of the new standard."DKIM isn't going to put an end to phishing, but I'm confident that DKIM is going to make it harder for phishing attacks to occur."


For more about DKIM, see article in NETWORKWORLD.