Yahoo! software offers spam relief
8 December 2003
A new email authentication system developed by Yahoo! will, the company claims, abolish spam, by applying a new filter technique.
The new 'Domain Keys' software proposes to approach the problem at source; by authenticating the sender of every email sent to a user's account.
Key is the idea of every system sending an email to embed a private key in the message header. This would then be checked by the receiving system against the public key registered by the internet's domain name system.
According to Brad Garlinghouse, Yahhoo!'s vice president for communication products, concentrating on authentication is essential.
'One of the core problems with spam is we don't know, Yahoo! doesn't know, the user doesn't know…if it really comes from the party it says it comes from', he said.
'What we're proposing here is to reengineer the way the internet works with regard to the authentication of email.'
The Domain Keys software will, he said, be released next year some time, and will be available free for developers of major open source email software and systems.
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