Sendmail and Yahoo! Mail Collaborate to Develop and Deploy DomainKeys; Sendmail and Yahoo! Mail To Begin Testing Innovative Cryptographic Authentication System.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers EMERYVILLE, Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2004 Sendmail, Inc., the global provider of electronic message management solutions and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), a leading global Internet company, will begin testing the DomainKeys(TM) cryptographic authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. solution in March 2004. Sendmail will test DomainKeys, an initiative recently introduced by Yahoo!, with a wide variety of open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced software to facilitate rapid adoption across the Internet. DomainKeys provide a mechanism for verifying the identity of an email sender in order to solve common spamming techniques such as forgery and spoofing (1) Faking the sending address of a transmission in order to gain illegal entry into a secure system. See e-mail spoofing. (2) Creating fake responses or signals in order to keep a session active and prevent timeouts. -- impersonating the sender of the email to appear as if it came from somewhere or someone other than the actual source. This authentication solution leverages public/private key cryptography See public key cryptography. to generate a signature in the header of the email message. When an email message is received from a particular domain, the receiving system verifies the signature with the sender's public key that is published in the public Domain Name System ("DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the "). If the public key cannot verify the signature, the identity of the sender is not validated and the receiving system's local anti-spam policy should be applied. "Cryptographic authentication solutions, such as DomainKeys which was introduced by Yahoo!, provide a strong assurance of both the sender's identity and the integrity of email content," said Eric Allman Eric Paul Allman (born 1955) is a computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. Education and training , CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Sendmail. "DomainKeys is one of the best cryptographic solutions we have seen because it offers strong authentication and flexibility with low impact to both the email infrastructure and end-users." "By validating identity with DomainKeys, we are knocking down the first and most important domino in the path to solving the spam problem," said Brad Garlinghouse, vice president of Communication Products at Yahoo!. "In working with Sendmail, and other industry leaders, we are able to develop a powerful authentication solution to solve the spoofing problem and lay the foundation for future anti-spam advances." After testing is concluded, Sendmail, Yahoo! and other industry leaders plan to develop an open source package that will allow many different email systems to generate and validate DomainKeys' authentication information. About Sendmail Sendmail, Inc. builds secure email systems for large enterprises and service providers who depend on email in their businesses. With proven technology and expertise, Sendmail works with customers to address their most complex messaging challenges. The result is a dependable email infrastructure that is easy to manage and built to grow. Sendmail customers include Sherwin-Williams, the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Executive Office of the President, Cablevision and Avaya. Sendmail was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., with offices and distributors in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . For more information about Sendmail, Inc., go to www.sendmail.com or call 1-877-363-6245. About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!'s global network includes 25 world properties and is available in 13 languages. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! Logo and DomainKeys are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Sendmail is a registered trademark of Sendmail Inc. (C) Sendmail, Inc. 2004. All rights reserved. |
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