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Yahoo! Develops Anti-Spam Architecture
prostoalex writes "Yahoo!, the owner of one of the largest e-mail systems in the world, is said to be developing a cryptographic product that will be offered freely to mail servers. 'Domain Keys,' according to the Reuters article, would require the message sender to authenticate in order for message to come across a trusted e-mail network. The idea has been around for ages, however, it required someone from the big league like Yahoo! to step in." While Yahoo! isn't the first name that comes to mind when I think of trusted email, it's still a step in the right direction.
You know I use Yahoo! Mail all the time... it does a great job in blocking spam... far better than Mozilla Thunderbird and Spam Assisian working together. While to two work great its a far cry from my Yahoo! Mail.
Obviously they must mean something besides the traditional notion of "private key" when they say "a private key is sent in the header, and the public key is used to decrypt it".
Is this a mistake, or is there some other terminology this is following?
As one of the bigger free e-mail providers, I have to say that Yahoo do an excellent job of spam protection, especially when compared to Hotmail. Yes, some spam e-mails do creep into the Inbox instead of the 'Bulk E-mail' folder they provide for spam, but I use my Yahoo account day-to-day, whereas my Hotmail address I've had to dump due to the amounts of spam I get.
SCO to announce lawsuit insisting that they hold the copyrights to all encryption.
Berrik
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