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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)."

3 of 416 comments (clear)

  1. Wait a minute... by Docrates · · Score: -1, Troll

    What if I DON'T want my emails signed? What if I want to maintain deniability?

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of them Google bashers (I don't believe the Google Desktop is spywer, for example), but in this case I would like to have an opt-out option!

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    There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
  2. Re:Header Example by Rikus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who do they think they are, not prepending "X-" to their weird headers?

  3. Re:Domain Keys question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    However, my domain provider doesn't allow smtp, so my outgoing mail is through my ISP.

    What the hell? How did this get modded +5 Interesting? Maybe +5 I smoked too much crack and I don't even know what the hell I'm talking about.

    Domain provider doesn't allow smtp? Hmmm...