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Gmail Begins Signing Email with DomainKeys

Posted by timothy on from the early-adopter dept.

NW writes "According to a post at IETF's MAIL-SIG list, Google has begun to sign outgoing email from Gmail with Yahoo's DomainKeys signatures. This is the first large provider of email that is actually doing so (not even Yahoo has started that yet)."

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  1. What!? by elid · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean the e-mail I got from BUYYYY_CH33P_M3DZ@gmail.com might not have been authentic!?!?

    1. Re:What!? by Bricklets · · Score: 1, Funny

      You mean the e-mail I got from BUYYYY_CH33P_M3DZ@gmail.com might not have been authentic!?!?

      How did you learn of my brother's screen name???

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    2. Re:What!? by tarunthegreat2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I thought this guy was New Here...

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  2. It takes all those PhDs at Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    To figure out how to implement DomainKeys. Seriously, that thing is a best.

  3. Re:Wait a minute... by nFriedly · · Score: 2, Funny

    hum.. thats an interesting thought.. i dont see why that would be a concern, but you could always just usea free yahoo account for those emails you want to be deniable...

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  4. Hazards of skim reading.... by Owndapan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw DomainKeys and read DonKeys. I took me forever to work out how such an animal could be used to sign emails for spam-filtering... I'll be releasing a white paper on it shortly.

    1. Re:Hazards of skim reading.... by darkmeridian · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, this is why Google couldn't institute DonKey by itself. The pageranking pigeons kept on crapping on the DonKeys.

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  5. Re:Wait a minute... by npietraniec · · Score: 2, Funny

    Use something else. Gee, that was hard.

  6. beta!? by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we have all these featurs even Yahoo doesn't have.. and yet we're still beta?

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    1. Re:beta!? by Duncan3 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh you'll pay... you'll definately pay...

      Just not yet ;)

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    2. Re:beta!? by metlin · · Score: 2, Funny

      Brimming with optimism, are we?

      Good day for it too, oh yes indeed! :p

  7. You? Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    "So we have all these featurs even Yahoo doesn't have.. and yet we're still beta?"
    We?

    I hate to break this to you... but you're not Google!
  8. Power UP by Mr._Hole · · Score: 1, Funny

    SENDER ID... Power UP! Kill the spammer scum. Captin we just don have the power! Engines to full throttle scotty.. Makes out with captin janeway humm lil offtopic GOGO Sender ID Ranger!

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  9. Re:Header Example by SuperRob · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your spam filter will reject "non-human-readable" text in the mail HEADER? Do you get ANY e-mail at all?

  10. Re:Continue the trend by magickalhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's funny. I trust president@whitehouse.com much more than I trust president@whitehouse.gov.

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  11. Re:Domain Keys question by SiliconEntity · · Score: 2, Funny
    I have a web domain mainly to receive e-mail. When I send mail, I use my domain in the "from." However, my domain provider doesn't allow smtp, so my outgoing mail is through my ISP. If my ISP supports domain-keys, they will sign my outgoing mail, but it will NOT match my totally-legitimate "from."

    Well, I may be too dumb to see why this won't work, but here's my crazy idea. Set your "From:" to be the place it's from, and set your "Reply-To:" to be the place you want 'em to reply to. How's that sound?