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DKIM is not the answer

By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2007 at 12:34 am

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What is it with all the media fuss over the DomainKeys Indentified Mail (DKIM) proposed standard RFC 4871? This email authentication framework uses crypto signatures to verify domains, and the likes of Yahoo! Mail is already seeing some billion DomainKeys signed emails every day. Impressive enough from a take-up perspective, but will it really make the Internet the spam free safe place to do business that its proponents, including large swathes of the media, claim?

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